Marriage is an unpredictable is that an optimistic man with an optimistic woman, sometimes equal to two pessimists.
For centuries population pessimists have hurledapocalyptic warnings at the congenital optimists, who believe in their bonesthat humanity will find ways to cope and even improve its lot.
Worse, the growing band of Afghanistan pessimists fears the national army, with so many illiterate and drug-addled recruits, will never be able to subdue the south of the country.
The pessimists proved the more prescient.
Failure is a disaster in the eyes of pessimists but a pleasure and romance in the eyes of optimists.
Bets around the current estimated population of 20,000-25,000 attract the shortest odds, 6/4, while pessimists opting for under 10,000 bears can get 20/1.
That is a big "if", say pessimists.
The main cause of the financial crisis may have been reckless optimism, but the pessimists are hardly being hailed as heroes.
Just as Malthusians were wrong to assume that the productivity of crop-land was fixed, so pessimists are wrong to assume that a unit of spectrum can support only so many subscribers.
Avoid malcontents and pessimists. They drag you down and contribute nothing.
That's what the pessimists say.
But pessimists rightly point out that Americans face a harder job adjusting to higher energy prices than Europeans, given their dependence on cars and taste for suburban living.
"Generalizations about nationalities (American are incurable optimists, Germans are professional pessimists, and Italians are amused by Both) are usually not welcomed, even when they are Basically accurate"
But equally there was a crisis-as the pessimists foresaw-and one that has undermined a pillar of the optimists' thinking on imbalances: that America is a beacon of financial stability.
Optimists or pessimists, the Greek Americans are watching the daily news deeply concerned about their homeland.
Optimists see the flower, while pessimists see the thorns.
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