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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."
"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
"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."
"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."
"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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"Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land."
"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
"Then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul."
"Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar."
"Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own."
"There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath..."
"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"
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