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• It is so important not to let ourselves off the hook or to become apathetic or cynical by telling ourselves that nothing works or makes a difference. Every day, light your small candle.... The inaction and actions of many human beings over a long time contributed to the crises our children face, and it is the action and struggle of many human beings over time that will solve them-with God's help. So every day, light your small candle.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Struggle, Light

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• Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a golden bonding of patience and love will help form a person into an exquisite masterpiece. It is as if people have to be broken before they can become whole and complete.

  Steve Goodier

  Disappointment, People, Broken

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• The Iranian government prevented journalists from marching in solidarity with the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre yet it organized flag-burning protests against the French embassy, that hasn't ingratiated them to a French nuclear negotiating team that is deeply cynical about the nature of the Iranian regime.

  Karim Sadjadpour

  Nature, Team, Victim

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• The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.

  Grant Heslov

  March, Film, Ides Of March

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• The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk.

  James Crumley

  Drunk, Persons

  James Crumley (2016). “The Wrong Case”, p.37, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Fairness, Good Things

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.57, Wordsworth Editions

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• The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religion, Atheism, Delight

  Sceptical Essays "On the Value of Scepticism" (1928)

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• I don't think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent 'edgy.' I think 'edgy' can mean a lot of different things.

  Steve Carell

  Mean, Thinking, Different

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• I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so angry, so ticked of about so many things.

  William Bennett

  Country, Powerful, Thinking

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• I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.

  Roger Ebert

  Wise, Heart, Guy

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.133, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Force always attracts men of low morality.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

  Samuel Johnson

  History, Liberty, Drivers

  Taxation No Tyranny (1775)

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• Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

  Bernard Berenson

  Inspirational, Creativity, Ignorance

  Bernard Berenson (1962). “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”

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• Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

  Max Ehrmann

  Love, Faces, Grass

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.9, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Body, Tongue, Muscles

  Dell' Anatomia Vol. 1, Ch. III

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• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Relationship, Marriage, Heaven

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• Every country has the government it deserves.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Country, Freedom, Government

  Lettres et Opuscules Inedits vol. 1, no. 53 (1851) (letter of 15 Aug. 1811)

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• One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Courage, Answers

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• Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Faith, Religious, Atheist

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.383, Penguin

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• Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

  George Orwell

  Jealousy, Sports, War

  "The Sporting Spirit" (1945)

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• Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

  William Penn

  Thinking, Democracies Have, People

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  A Guide to Men prelude (1922)

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• It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

  Bono

  Sweet, Teeth, Rotting

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• I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Change, Believe, Men

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• The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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