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Pessimism
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Leonard Cohen
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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Ren� Descartes
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
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Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty
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Mark Twain
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little
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Bernard Shaw
A pessimist thinks that everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it
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Oscar Wilde
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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