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Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Vachel Lindsay
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In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
Barack Obama
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Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
Joe Klein
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The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
Andre Breton
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
Gore Vidal
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Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.
Jeremy Paxman
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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
Bob Goff
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Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.
Ambrose Bierce
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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson
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Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
Adyashanti
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I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.
Graham Coxon
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Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
Vera Farmiga
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Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.
Glen Cook
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We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.
Antanas Mockus
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I need a healthy injection of cynicism right now.
Dylan Moran
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I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
Tom Hanks
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I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
Ralph Barton Perry
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Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
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A person is as young as their dreams and as old as their cynicism.
Tony Campolo
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Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)
Kate Spade
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They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.
Jay Carr
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among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all
Tracy Kidder
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Cynics always say no. Saying yes leads to knowledge. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.
Stephen Colbert
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We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.
Shane Claiborne
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Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.
Cameron Crowe
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The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.
Abraham Maslow
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
Bette Midler
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[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.
George Berkeley
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You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.
Jean Renoir
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I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
Carl Barks
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The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love.
Bryant H. McGill
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It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.
Andrew Sarris