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Originally Posted by mapuc
I wish I had more of your optimisme Dargo and lesser pessimisme
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Pessimism never won any battle. The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, no pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars. Always look on the bright side of life. It makes it easier. Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong, but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
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Originally Posted by Winston Churchill
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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[QUOTE=Skybird;2934631]Before 2014, the Donbass region (=Donezk) was the most important (rank 1) industrial region amongst the over two dozen oblasts (provinces) in Ukraine, together with Luhansk oblast (ranked No. 5 in that list) contributing around one quarter to the total industrial and productive weight of Ukraine. Four of the top five oblasts in that list represent now occupied obla