"optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious."

-- Ambrose Bierce

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“I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I would like. And most likely the readers, authors, and editors of that magazine would be equally hard pressed to come up with cogent, non-technical arguments convincing a skeptic of this point, especially if pitted against a clever lawyer arguing the contrary. How come Truth is such a slippery beast?”
“The whole thing is just ripe to be a very good thing.”
“The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.”
“It is an assumption brought forth countless of times in various contexts that the world would be better, drifting slower towards the ruin, if women had the "power"; if political leadership, decision making, government and economic life was in the hands of women. I think reality, the observation material, supports the assumption.”

Source : "Women As The Protectors Of Life II". Essay by Pentti Linkola, 1996.
“I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.”
“Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won't exist because you'll have already shut it out...You can hear other people's wisdom, but you've got to re-evaluate the world for yourself.”
“There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about it, perhaps even some sort of cheating.”
“Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?”

Source : Telegram sent to the Warden of New College, Oxford, on hearing of Kruscher's derogatory remarks on his 'Lazarus' in the College chapel

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