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Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you… — Daniel Kahneman
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so… — Miriam Makeba
Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while… — Terrence McNally
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger. — P.J. O'Rourke
I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed. — George A. Romero
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are… — Leland Stanford
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We… — Arnold J. Toynbee
Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others. — Marquis de Sade
I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination. — Zelda Fitzgerald
I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with… — Plutarch
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with… — Carl Jung
Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in… — Richard Wright
He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie. — Mark Twain
I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species,… — Timothy Leary
Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of… — Erich Fromm
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him… — Nikolai Gogol
Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights derive not from… — Mark Levin
In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of… — Cormac McCarthy
As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as… — Elizabeth I
He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a Nazgûl, endowed with the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances. — Daisaku Ikeda
A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this… — Lawrence M. Krauss
He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons. — Vasily Grossman

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