"If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked."
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"I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest."
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"Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."
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"I'm a cynical idealist."
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"It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history."
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"Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation."
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"Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves."
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"It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio."
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"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
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"A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know."
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"Join the army and see the next world."
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"Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them."
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"Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic."
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"Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression."
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"All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake."
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"You must lose a fly to catch a trout."
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"The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought."
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"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell."
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"This is such a cynical world. The way the world is, there's so much going on and so much stress in the world and so much darkness and craziness and imbalance."
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"Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste."
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