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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
Pessimism
Elias Canetti

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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Optimism
Antonio Gramsci

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I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist.
Pessimism
Paul Harvey

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A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Pessimism
Elbert Hubbard

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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Attitude
Jean De La Fontaine

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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
Possibilities
Max Lerner

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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Pessimism
Don Marquis

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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Tradition
Lewis Mumford

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The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it.
Optimism
Julius Robert Oppenheimer

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In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
Pessimism
Daniel Readon

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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
Pessimism
George Bernard Shaw

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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
Optimism
Mark Twain

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There is nothing sadder than a young pessimist.
Pessimism
Mark Twain

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Always borrow from a pessimist, he never expects anything back.
Borrowing
Source Unknown

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I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist.
Pessimism
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A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Pessimism
Oscar Wilde

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A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
Pessimism
Walter Winchell

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun