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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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"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."
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"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
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"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."
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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 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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"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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"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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"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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"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."
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"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center."
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"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."
Work
"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."
Job
"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."
Man
"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."
Home
"Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose."
Purpose
"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
"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were."
Death
"If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order."
Hope
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