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“"We seem to have thought of everything - except the Arabs"”

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Judah Leon Magnes was a Jewish American philosopher and educator, born on July 5, 1877, and died on October 27, 1948. He is known for his contributions to Zionism and pacifism. more

“We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel.... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours ... When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do will be to scurry around like drugged roaches in a bottle.”

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Author:Rafael Eitan

“The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not have changed, but our capacity for dealing with it has. Happiness, or unhappiness, depends to some extent on external conditions, but also, and in most cases chiefly, on our own physical and mental powers. Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.”

“Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.”

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Book:The World as Will and Representation

Source: The World as Will and Representation

“There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.”

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Book:A Primer in Positive Psychology

Source: A Primer in Positive Psychology

“The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.”

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Book:Working with Emotional Intelligence

Source: Working with Emotional Intelligence

“Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.”

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Book:Intuition: Its Powers and Perils

Source: Intuition: Its Powers and Perils

“Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.”

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Author:David Myers

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