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Optimism and Pessimism Are Contrasting Worldviews

Optimism and pessimism are living attitudes people embody. Optimism causes a person's world to expand while pessimism shrinks it.

Optimism and Pessimism Are Contrasting Worldviews

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Optimism and pessimism are living attitudes people embody.

Optimism causes a person's world to expand while pessimism shrinks it.

Optimism and pessimism are living attitudes people embody. Optimism causes a person's world to expand while pessimism shrinks it.

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