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"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."
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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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"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."
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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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"Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up."
God
"You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare."
Enemy
"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."
Pessimism
"The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'"
Politics
"I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline."
Discipline
"The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America."
Politics
"We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves."
Truth
"On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done."
Battle
"I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also."
God
"But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago."
Love
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