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Pessimism Quotes
"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."
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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 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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"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
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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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"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
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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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"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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"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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"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."
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