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Rene Descartes

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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
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Michel de Saint Pierre, as quoted in Cryptograms and Spygrams (1981) by Norma Gleason, p. 106; attributed to Descartes in The Athlete's Way : Training Your Mind and Body to Experience the Joy of Exercise (2008) by Christopher Bergland, p. 271

 
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