"A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely."

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Edmond Rostand

#Men Quotes #Telling The Truth Quotes #Pessimist Quotes

“If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.”
“Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.”
“[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.”
“When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never â€“ since the objective is not to close a cycle, to generate a catharsis, or to end a development. On the contrary, its objective is to encourage autonomous activity, to set a process in motion, to stimulate transformative creativity, to change spectators into protagonists. And it is precisely for these reasons that the Theatre of the Oppressed should be the initiator of changes the culmination of which is not the aesthetic phenomenon but real life.”
“Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.”
“And I deeply pray that everyone discovers that they can strip away anything that might be holding them back on every level, and can begin living life from the real essence of their own soul.â€¨”
“For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political consequences, it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great misfortune for the South.”
“Want me to spend the night? Hey lover boy, you know I will, and my best girlfriend lives down the road, together we will thrill you.”

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