"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."

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"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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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."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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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."

Rebecca McNutt, Canadian Author

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"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."

Elias Canetti, Swiss Author

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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."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

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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."

Gordon B. Hinckley, American Clergyman

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"A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."

Golda Meir, Israeli Leader

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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."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."

"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."

"I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic, said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems."

"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."

"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."

"Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan."

"Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations."

"A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it."

"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."

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"Being seventy is not a sin."

"Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys."

"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."

"Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that."

"The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight."

"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel."

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"It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore."