"The only deadly sin I know is cynicism."

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"The only deadly sin I know is cynicism."

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"A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye."

Carolyn Wells, American Author

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"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding."

J.D. Salinger, American Politician

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"The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking."

Graham Coxon, German Musician

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"When somebody says it's not about the money, it's about the money."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Expect stupid. It's everywhere."

Lois Greiman, American Author

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"In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"You're not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane."

Rebecca McNutt, Canadian Author

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"Love is more than blind. It's brain-dead."

Ellen Hopkins, American Novelist

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"It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement."

Steven Magee, British Author

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Explore more quotes by Henry L. Stimson

"There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated."

Government, Time, People, Feeling

"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him."

Life, Trust, Distrust, Man

"Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves."

Action, Actions, Now, Quarrels, Talking

"We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty."

Decision-making, Difficulty, Question

"I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words."

Time, Actions, Now, Opinion

"After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time."

Health, Time, Thought, Doctors

"Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet we will not know until after that time probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not."

Time, Meeting, Problems, Will

"I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front."

Confidence, United

"I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under."

Office, Pressure, Talk

"It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself."

Politics, Approval, Army, Country, Retirement