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"Pessimism never won any battle."
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"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
"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."
"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."
"I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left."
"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."
"I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic, said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems."
"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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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."
"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"
"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."
"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were."
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