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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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"A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it."
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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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"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."
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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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"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
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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 never won any battle."
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"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."
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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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"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."
Love
"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
Right
"You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing."
Joy
"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."
Family
"The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older."
Change
"I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot."
Society
"In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it."
Literature
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
Politics
"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."
Existence
"She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech."
Communication
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