Sun
Dec 31 2006
12:45 pm
By: bizgrrl
AP-AOL "Poll: Americans see gloom, doom in 2007"
AP(-AOL) poll: Americans optimistic for 2007
I'm confused. I'll take door number 2.
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from the second link -
"Pessimists aren't unhappy, he said, 'they're just not disappointed as often as optimistic people are.'"
Kinda reminds me of a saying from an old friend - You can divide the world into two kinds of people: those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who do not.
There are 10 kinds of people
There are 10 kinds of people in the world -- those who understand binary math, and those who don't.
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