Might we not induce the pessimist to give up saying this by giving the optimist something more to say? |
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He does not allow the voice of the pessimist spirit to prevail, as a poeticule of the morbid school would have done. |
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In interviews, he is a perennial pessimist, never willing to talk his teams up regardless of the situation. |
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Can we fill in the lacuna which the pessimist finds in the optimist's account of the concept of moral responsibility? |
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Whether you are a cloudy pessimist or a sunny optimist, you can be effective or ineffective. |
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A pessimist, they say, is someone passionate who has been disappointed on too many occasions. |
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If one is a pessimist, the issue between determinists and libertarians is felt to be particularly important. |
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The pessimist may be supposed to ask why freedom in this sense justifies blame. |
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The pessimist recoils from this picture, and in his recoil there is, typically, an element of emotional shock. |
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My suspicions don't mean that I am a doom-monger or cynical pessimist, but utopian thinking hasn't led to very happy ends in the past. |
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It's something that I, as a card-carrying pessimist, have thought about plenty of times before. |
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The shop was owned by a bald-headed pessimist who had once been a gold prospector in Canada. |
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A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. |
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I want to tell my colleague that, indeed, they always play the pessimist card. |
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Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, we still have much work to do, but I am no pessimist. |
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The composer, a pessimist, merely hoped the work would complete the schedule of eight performances. |
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They say that the pessimist is never disappointed, but on the other hand the meek shall inherit the earth. |
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But I believe that anyone participating in effecting change cannot be a pessimist. |
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The pessimist is one who cannot enjoy the joys of life and is very conscious that he has the passion of the unsatisfied and of the unsatisfiable. |
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No matter how Allen grows or experiments, fails or succeeds, he is forever the amusing worrier, the reasonable pessimist. |
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This gap is to be filled, according to the pessimist, with the general metaphysical thesis of indeterminism. |
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When thinking about things to come, he is neither an optimist nor a pessimist, but a seeker after facts. |
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Yet his argument is hedged with sufficient caveats that the pessimist could still feel vindicated. |
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A pessimist would argue that many of the conditions now are exactly as they were then. |
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Nevertheless, I'm not a pessimist as I think we live in an exciting world even though it is in turmoil. |
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Consequently, architects are pessimist about the public sector and not confident in the future. |
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A pessimist is one who takes delight in condemning what he considers to be undesirable without doing anything to remedy it. |
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Therefore, as the adage says, the pessimist might be right, but the optimist enjoys the trip. |
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The facts as we know them supply an adequate basis for the concepts and practices which the pessimist feels to be imperilled by the possibility of determinism's truth. |
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It might be that the pessimist is rightly anxious to get this vital thing back and, in the grip of his anxiety, feels he has to go beyond the facts as we know them. |
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In this difficult economic environment, however, I am not a pessimist. |
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A careful observer might have as many reasons to be optimistic as pessimist when facing the possible major changes in the management of the economy. |
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It doesn't matter whether the motivation to integrate a fire safety system is based on regulations, a compensation measure or is due to a pessimist who wants to avoid the experience of a past incident in the future. |
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In the shipping world, the reactions are the most often pessimist. |
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In a French version of the Reader's Digest, I read one day the infamous phrase about the pessimist and the optimist both being necessary to society: one invented the airplane and the other, the parachute. |
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He who thinks he has hit bottom is not a pessimist, but an optimist. |
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As one pessimist puts it, Gazprom is a classic case of how a phenomenally valuable asset can fail to be a good investment. Two parties are responsible: its management and the government. |
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Mr. Speaker, unfortunately this member is a pessimist. |
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I will not marry a pessimist, a born loser, a fellow who has no fight in him. |
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A short by Peter Regan entitled Jonny the Pessimist was interesting. |
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