But I am the optimist, so I knew the candidates would go off topic.
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Always the optimist, Case says we might see comprehensive immigration reform legislation introduced in the next month.
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Ever the optimist, Warsop says he's already begun discussions with the NFL to help remake that league's card business.
In my Forbes magazine column, which closes today, I play ever the optimist.
That said, the optimist has us believing that a surplus is a positive for the region because exports are dominating.
Ever the optimist, Dayton is unbowed "We started with a great knowledge base and learned a tremendous amount in the last year, " he says.
The optimist in me tells me that with unemployment so high, productivity so high, yes inventory restocking has occurred, but manufacturing is growing again.
Curious, ebullient and ever the optimist, Mr Cohen liked to reach out to damaged children and draw them back into the fold of normality.
The optimist in me believed that I would receive my account base for the year and be on my way, but then I noticed signs.
So the optimist club turns as a last refuge to stocks.
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Ever the optimist, Inwentash insists that change is in the air.
The optimist in me wants to believe that we will heed the warnings from people like Peter and tackle the big problems together as a nation.
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Techniques like this tell us that the mind of the pessimist is drawn imperceptibly toward the negative while the upbeat and positive is a magnet for the optimist.
Of course, a growth rate of 7% is hardly a disaster, and Rothman still counts himself firms in the optimist camp when it comes to investing in China, provided you back the right horse.
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Yet, ever the optimist, Americans still believe the country is a land of opportunity, all the while believing less in that Cold War era America Dream, according to a poll released Tuesday by Yahoo!
Ever the optimist, with the economy ticking up again, law school (at the first tier) may again become a go-to first career step for women who want to control their own economic future.
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The optimist and competent decision makers at Petrobras did not plan to leave this reactor sitting at the port but since Rio de Janeiro highways do not support the weight of the equipment, well it is stuck there.
Ever the blind optimist, before the surgery began he assured me that in a few years, the aneurysm would just be a memory, a footnote to my much longer, larger life story.
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But even then, the indefatigable optimist Chu suggests, he'll be an early buyer among the rubble.
His book the Rational Optimist, in which he looks at how human prosperity has evolved, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson non-fiction prize in 2011.
The gloom and doom jobs and unemployment reports are enough to discourage even the biggest optimist.
Seward the gregarious optimist complemented each other like those of a comfortable married couple.
Or so the biotech optimist in me would like to believe.
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The junior optimist was brought to a room filled with manure.
In the AI optimist camp, futurist and Google director of engineering Ray Kurzweil also sees intelligent machines precipitating human extinction, of a sort, only in Kurzweil's telling, humanity is not exterminated but subsumed into a superintelligent machine.
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