A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

Mark Twain

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

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I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

Maynard James Keenan

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I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

Dwight Eisenhower

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Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed - it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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