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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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"A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it."
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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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"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
Emotion

"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"
Car

"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."
Reflection

"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
Love

"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."
Family

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."
Time

"A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception."
Care

"The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women."
Gender

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
Old

"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"
Virtue
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