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"Pessimism never won any battle."
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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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"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."
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"Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan."
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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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"A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it."
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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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"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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"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."
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"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
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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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"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."
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"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
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"Things have never been more like the way they are today in history."
History
"If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone."
Risk
"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage."
Politics
"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."
Age
"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center."
People
"I don't like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution."
Integrity
"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
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"In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?"
War
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