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"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
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"Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations."
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"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
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"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."
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"I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will."
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"I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic, said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems."
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"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."
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"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."
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"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."
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"I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind."
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"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
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"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."
Politics
"Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good."
Politics
"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."
Ambition
"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."
Being
"Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!""
Boys
"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends."
Friendship
"Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes."
Justice
"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
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"Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions."
Education
"If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone."
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