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PESSIMISM
[ Also see Cheerfulness Cynics Despondency Melancholy Misanthropy Moroseness Optimism Pessimists ]

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
      - Arnold Bennett (Enoch Arnold Bennett)

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
      - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (3)

Pessimism is a waste of time.
      - Norman Cousins

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
      - Kahlil Gibran

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

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
      - Paul Harvey

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
      - William James

Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
      - George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist

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