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 | "A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately,
they don?t have a J.O.B." | |
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Fats Domino
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| "A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and
hates them for it." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over." | |
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Beilby Porteous
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| "He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over." | |
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Porteus
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| "How much pain have cost us the evils which have never
happened." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "I don"t believe in pessimism. If something doesn"t come up the way
you want, forge ahead. If you think it"s going to rain, it will." | |
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Clint Eastwood
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| "If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist?" | |
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Unknown
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| "No one really knows enough to be a pessimist." | |
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Norman Cousins
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| "PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the
observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his
scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses
both." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Please do not think me a pessimist. I love life. I think it is a joy
to live in this age. Every morning, as I greet the sun as he ushers in
these unexcelled autumn days, I feel the joy of living. I realize the
accomplishments, to a certain degree, of this wonderful mechanistic age.
Today time and distance are practically annihilated." | |
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David Oman McKay
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| "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible
worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." | |
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James Branch Cabell
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| "Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious
mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close
to ourselves to see in proper perspective." | |
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Richard L. Evans
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