"On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that today I see most of the symptoms of societies on the brink of collapse, not just in the U.S., but in the tightly interconnected societies of Western civilization - now essentially world civilization."

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Arthur Demarest

#Pessimistic Quotes #World Quotes #Today Quotes

“The pleasure of eating something because it is expensive has absolutely nothing to do with the taste of good cuisine.”
“Many times you will fail. That is the nature of the world, and the truth of life. But when you find your horse again, will go back or will you go forward?”
“A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.”
“Wink and shut their apprehensions up.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267-70, Antonio's Revenge, Prolog, 1922.
“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”
“But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up.”
“Now for me, you're the irreplaceable one: I've never see you up so close before, and I do not understand you at all. You say sometimes I act like I don't see you? I don't even know where to look! Living with you around is like is like living with a permanent dazzle. The fact that you even like me, or look at me, or brush by me, or hug me, or hold me, is so surprising that after it's over I have to go back through it a dozen times in my head to savor it and try and figure out what it was like because I was too busy being astounded while it was happening.”
“I have always supported measures and principles and not men.”

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