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"I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic, said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems."
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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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"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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"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
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"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
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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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"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."
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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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"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 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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"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."
People
"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
Art
"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."
Perspective
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
World
"I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it."
Discipline
"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
Expression
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything."
Change
"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."
War
"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."
Mistake
"One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."
Wisdom
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