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  1. David Mitchell _ Cloud Atlas

    The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;
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  2. Jim Butcher _ Dead Beat

    We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" "No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die."
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  3. James S.A. Corey _ Drive

    The grass is always greener on the other side of personal extinction.
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  4. Alain de Botton _ News

    Though anger seems a pessimistic response to a situation, it is at root a symptom of hope: the hope that the world can be better than it is. The man who shouts every time he loses his house keys is betraying a beautiful but rash faith in a universe in which keys never go astray. The woman who grows furious every time a politician breaks an election promise reveals a precariously utopian belief that elections do not involve deceit. The news shouldn't eliminate angry responses; but it should help us to be angry for the right reasons, to the right degree, for the right length of time – and as part of a constructive project. And whenever this isn't possible, then the news should help us with mourning the twisted nature of man and reconciling us to the difficulty of being able to imagine perfection while still not managing to secure it – for a range of stupid but nevertheless unbudgeable reasons.
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  5. Alain de Botton _ Religion for Atheists: A

    It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships.
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  6. Diana Palmer _ Carrera's Bride

    All the people we loved, who have died, are still alive in the past. The only thing that really separates us is time. It's a matter of perspective. That's what separates optimism and pessimism.
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  7. William Goldman _ The Princess Bride

    We'll never survive!" "Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has.
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  8. William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    They were following their prime minister, matching their government's mood."
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  9. Voltaire _ Candide

    If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
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  10. Gretchen Rubin _ The Happiness Project: Or Why

    Once I started trying to give positive reviews, though, I began to understand how much happiness I took from the joyous ones in my life---and how much effort it must take for them to be consistently good=tempered and positive. It is easy to be heavy; hard to be light. We nonjoyous types suck energy and cheer from the joyous ones; we rely on them to buoy us with their good spirit and to cushion our agitation and anxiety. At the same time, because of a dark element in human nature, we're sometimes provoked to try to shake the enthusiastic, cheery folk out of their fog of illusion---to make them see that the play was stupid, the money was wasted, the meeting was pointless. Instead of shielding their joy, we blast it.
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  11. Roméo Dallaire _ They Fight Like Soldiers, They

    I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.
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  12. Roméo Dallaire _ They Fight Like Soldiers, They

    The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.
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