"The worst thing about cynicism is its truth."

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Ethel Mumford

#Cynicism Quotes #Worst Quotes

“The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.”
“It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right. It is time to praise blacks who are merely undeniable in their individuality and exemplary in their levels of achievement .”

Source : "Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet: America's New Dilemma". Book by D. Marvin Jones, 2013.
“I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in terms of the grossly undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.”
“Hi." "Hi." I shrug, as though to say "Whatever." In my peripheral vision I can see Magnus exhale. He looks a teeny bit nervous. "So." "So." I can play this game too. "Poppy." "Poppy. I mean, Magnus." I scowl. He caught me out.”
“No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.”
“Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.”

Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”
“Have you ever heard sculptors say that they donâ€™t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isnâ€™t the object?”
“Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.”

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