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OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there, there isn't any there there.
Gertrude Stein
The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there, it's there.
Herb Caen
OPEN MIND
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
George Bernard Shaw
OPERA
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
Gioacchino Rossini
People are wrong when they say that opera isn't what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That's what's wrong with it.
Noel Coward
OPTIMISM
Optimism is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.
Voltaire
Optimism: the noble temptation to see too much in everything.
G.K. Chesterton
Optimism, n. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including the ugly.
Ambrose Bierce
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
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