| German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer was one of history's great pessimists. |
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| Can there be any possibility of reconciliation between such clearly opposed positions as those of pessimists and optimists about determinism? |
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| The dollar pessimists argue that the Asian central banks are already dangerously overexposed both to the dollar and to the U.S. bond market. |
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| No country, say the pessimists, has ever attained global supremacy without a war or two. |
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| A long-term ally of stock-market pessimists has gone over to the bullish side. |
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| The dangerous game of prediction separates the optimists from the pessimists. |
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| There are economic pessimists who refuse to accept good news about our economy. |
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| The foreign policy expert mentioned in the introduction is among the pessimists. |
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| What you are going to do is polarise the debate, declare yourself an optimist and make the pessimists look like dills. |
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| Whatever the pessimists might say, there is plenty of oil to last for the foreseeable future. |
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| Job market pessimists outnumbered optimists by the widest margin in more than seven years, according to the February report. |
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| I hope the pessimists, cynics and scoffers will not have the last word on this. |
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| They were pessimists, who refused to see history in terms of progress, and instead saw it as a desperate struggle against degeneration. |
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| Optimists may say that the glass is half-full, pessimists that the glass is half-empty. |
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| This ideologically diverse group is made up of cultural pessimists, environmentalists, traditionalists, egalitarians, and technophobes. |
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| Some analysts are also more sanguine on the outcome of the case than the pessimists are. |
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| Besides, these sentiments are very ambiguous, since the same developments that make some optimists make others pessimists. |
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| The UDHR project did not fulfill optimists' dreams, but it has exceeded the expectations of the pessimists. |
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| The proportion of pessimists is notably above-average in Greece and West Germany. |
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| Experience tells us that the pessimists have never been totally right or totally wrong. |
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| It also attract pessimists, hell-fire merchants, preachers and doomsters. |
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| The only people who are sure of what they think are the inveterate pessimists who declare that the situation can only grow worse. |
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| The reading is now firmly in positive territory, which indicates that optimists far outnumber pessimists. |
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| Population pessimists have insisted that high fertility and rapid population growth inhibit development. |
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| The object was to show how a certain sector of the economy fulfilled or overfulfilled its plan, despite wreckers, saboteurs, pessimists, and other perils. |
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| While an improvement, a negative number means that pessimists still outnumber optimists. |
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| I am unmoved by the pessimists who say that the Nobel Peace Prize has failed to avert violence. |
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| If the pessimists are right and it turns out to be a long and costly quagmire then people will remember the negatives and the pendulum will swing back the other way. |
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| The pessimists in our midst envision a truly calamitous chain of events. |
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| Mr. Anderson: Mr. Speaker, it is true, the pessimists are on the other side of the House, and the optimists are here on the government side. |
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| So if French intellectuals are predominantly critical pessimists, miserabilism may in part be the consequence of holding them in such esteem. |
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| Both schools include optimists and pessimists concerning the preventability of war. |
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| According to a brief article in the New York Times, research has shown that pessimists are, ironically, more likely to die earlier than optimists. |
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| Pro-disarmament and anti-disarmament pessimists share the view that the world is becoming an increasingly confusing and dangerous place. |
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| Optimists go outside and get a suntan, but pessimists stay indoors and avoid getting cancer. |
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| There are other positives which suggest that the US recession will not be as deep as some pessimists expect. |
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| Optimists and pessimists will argue that we don't appear in large numbers because we're absorbed into the U. S. infrastructure. |
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| Compared to people elsewhere, Germans also tend to be pessimists. |
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| Some pessimists will argue that in the knowledge society a significant section of the population is condemned to a diminishing supply of unskilled work because they lack the capabilities to acquire skills. |
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| People prefer optimists to doom-laden pessimists. |
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| Political leaders and policy makers will also have to muster courage and persistence in the face of pessimists, who will inevitably question whether people who were once homeless can be good neighbors and citizens. |
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| We fully support his comments and share his sentiments completely, but we do not identify with the comments of those pessimists who appear to want to throw in the towel at the sight of any difficulty. |
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| It is personal attitudes that make optimists and pessimists, idealist, and cynics, mavericks and conformists, high achievers and high school drop-outs. |
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| We can therefore choose to be pessimists and not do anything at all. |
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| Those who put a positive spin on the situation will always be more successful change agents than those who are crapehangers or pessimists. |
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| In irrepressibly positive Mexico, optimists lead pessimists by a stunning 81 percentage points. In this section OUTPUT, DEMAND AND JOBS PRICES AND WAGES BUSINESS CONFIDENCE COMMODITY PRICE INDEX Reprints. |
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| Yes, the pessimists have been crying wolf for almost a century. |
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| But, for pessimists, this change was only ever going to strengthen extremist groups and their supporters, by forging links between members of a closed and stigmatised community, strengthening their collective identity. |
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| Volatility will continue for some time yet, but despite the many pessimists out there, we continue to believe that the risks of a double-dip in the economy are low. |
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| The pessimists focus on the legacies of the debt burden inherited from the boom years and the years of toil needed to restore full confidence in the working of the free market-system. |
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| We gave the pessimists and the sceptics a lesson. |
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| Despite the claims of pessimists, history has shown that it is in the nature of us all to move from ignorance to understanding and from fear to love. |
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| Once again, time will tell if the pessimists or the optimists are right, but just for the record, if negotiations do get postponed once again, it would not be for the first time in the history of the Doha Round! |
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| Labaree also wrote that Loyalists were pessimists who lacked the confidence in the future displayed by the Patriots. |
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| And its selade millionaire boss Mr David Cockayne says it will continue to expand despite pessimists talking Britain into recession. |
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| Pessimists will be inclined to predict that Scotland have found their level. |
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| Pessimists who say mergers often destroy shareholder value will be proved wrong, he says. |
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| Pessimists and optimists differ in how they explain the causes of both good and bad events. |
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