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Pessimism is a great fictional game board but writers shouldn't make it the default setting for plots.
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The terms Pessimism and Optimism are handled very loosely in these latter days.
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In him was accomplished that great discovery which the philosophers have called Pessimism; he not only saw in other men (as depicted in his memorable canvas of 1849), but he experienced in himself the transitory life's illusions.
Watts (1817-1904) William Loftus Hare
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"Pessimism," "doomed to fail" and "waste of time" - these words and phrases litter the reporting and blogging on the current talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
Ami Kaufman: A Wild Card: U.S. Recognition of Palestinian Declaration of Independence Ami Kaufman 2010
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"Pessimism," "doomed to fail" and "waste of time" - these words and phrases litter the reporting and blogging on the current talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
Ami Kaufman: A Wild Card: U.S. Recognition of Palestinian Declaration of Independence Ami Kaufman 2010
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"Pessimism," "doomed to fail" and "waste of time" - these words and phrases litter the reporting and blogging on the current talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
Ami Kaufman: A Wild Card: U.S. Recognition of Palestinian Declaration of Independence Ami Kaufman 2010
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The BBC headlines today with the claim 'Pessimism' growing among Iraqis '' based on the findings of a D3 Systems poll they amongst others commissioned.
Some Stuff Ralph 2007
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As for Chapter XXVIII, on "Pessimism," it is enough, I think, to refer the reader to Book IV, in Schopenhauer's work on _The World as Will and
A Handbook of Ethical Theory George Stuart Fullerton
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Among the systems not in harmony with the Vedic dogmas, the most celebrated is Buddhism, a kind of Pessimism which teaches liberation from pain in a state of unconscious repose, or an extinction of personality (Nirvâna).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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New Delhi: "Pessimism" may well be the word that reflected corporate India's mood in the last three quarters.
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