The bearded and softly-spoken founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, describes himself as "pathologically optimistic".

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Pit militant Zionists against displaced Palestinians pathologically obsessed with lost real estate and you have an intractable problem.

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Despite all this, Lanier can be almost pathologically sensitive when he feels misunderstood.

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Dan took a look around my almost pathologically cluttered cubicle, predicted I would fail hard and walked away laughing.

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There is a pathologically unstable tyrant in the final years of his dictatorship just 90 miles from our shores.

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Often, because they are not constantly self-correcting to appear right by watching what they say, pathologically honest people come up with novel, or even game-changing, ideas.

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Not so the pathologically honest man who might be grumpy, but is more than willing to risk ruffling your feathers by giving you what he feels is honest feedback.

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And they matter to him because they share his opinions and his goal of indoctrinating young people to adopt his pathologically hostile views about Israel and his contempt for the American public that supports it.

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The beltway echo chamber, even in defeat, continues to be pathologically optimistic about their ability to be effective in moving the country in a rightward direction and almost completely blind to the fact that they have fiddled while America burned for more than a generation.

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