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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 foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left."
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"If you believe the world is conspiring against you it will just do that, you will help on by your pessimism action to prove you are right."
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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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"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."
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"Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism."
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"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
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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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"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
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"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
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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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"World War II was the last government program that really worked."
Government
"There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice."
Poetry
"If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone."
Job
"Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good."
Politics
"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
"A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind."
Food
"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."
Ambition
"In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it."
Sacrifice
"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends."
Friendship
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