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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

German Lutheran theologian and pastor whose works concern Christianity in the modern world; an active opponent of Nazism, he was arrested and sent to Buchenwald and later executed (1906-1945)

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    Das Wesen des Optimismus ist, dass er die Gegenwart nicht berücksichtigt, aber er ist eine Quelle der Inspiration, der Vitalität und der Hoffnung, wo andere resigniert haben. Er ermöglicht es einem Mann, den Kopf hoch zu halten, die Zukunft für sich zu beanspruchen und nicht aufzugeben es seinem Feind.

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