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• OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.
  It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile....
• What passes for optimism is most often the effect on an intellectual error.
  -- Raymond Aron, "The Opium of the Intellectuals", 1957...
• What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
  -- Raymond Aron, "The Opium of the Intellectual...
• INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we are born with, having had them previously imparted to us.
  The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable faiths of philosophy, being itself an innate idea and therefore inaccessible to disproof, though Locke foolishly supposed himself to have given it "a black eye....
• BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters -- the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably
  a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind....
• Since everything in life is but an experience perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.
  -- Long Chen Pa...
• What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong. -- Robin William
• A falling body always rolls to the most inaccessible spot. -- Theodore M. Bernstei