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“You're confident he'll have found him, then?"
"Well, no. I didn't sat that."
"If there's one thing I hate," Volyova said, looking coldly at the other Triumvir, "it's mindless optimism.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space

tags: cynicism, optimism

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“In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.”
― Sigmund Freud, Letters of Sigmund Freud, 1873-1939;

tags: cynicism, humanity, mankind

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“Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: cynicism, humor

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“Better not to find out whether or not the rumors
are true, I say. Better find the other bastard and skin
him.”
― Angelo Tsanatelis, The Shadow & the Blood Assassin

tags: cynicism, dark-hunters, strange-logic

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“To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this:
1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason.
2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right.
3. Charity is immoral.
4. Pay for your own fucking schools.”
― Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

tags: ayn-rand, cynicism, objectivism, philosophy

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