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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.
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The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
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Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our consciousness some fault or inadequacy which we would prefer to have remain unconscious, and therefore without power to disturb our self-complacency.
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Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.
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I really like dark music and darkness in general and cynicism and pessimism and negativity because it allows you to create an even bigger contrast.
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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.
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It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
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Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.
