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#151

“Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.”
― Thomas Huxley

tags: cynical, science

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#152

“Love. I'm not capable of it, can't even approach it from the side, let alone head-on. Nor am I alone in this—everyone is like this, the liars. Singing songs and painting pictures and telling each other stories about love and its mysteries and marvelous properties, myths to keep morale up—maybe one day it'll materialize. But I can say it ten times a day, a hundred times, 'I love you,' to anyone and anything, to a woman, to a pair of pruning shears. I've said it without meaning it at all, taken love's name in vain and gone dismally unpunished. Love will never be real, or if it is, it has no power. No power. There's only covetousness, and if what we covet can't be won with gentle words—and often it can't—then there is force.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox

tags: art, cynical, helen-oyeyemi, hypocrites, liars, love, mr-fox, romantic-love, unreal

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#153

“Our own brand of democracy has reached a point in its evolution where we expect ruthless, self-protective pragmatism from our politicians, rather than idealism; where noble sentiments are likely to be dismissed as the 'vision thing'; where winning is everything, civility is in short supply, and the lack of respect between political opponents - sometimes amounting almost to loathing - only serves to reinforce voters' cynicism about all of them (a cynicism deepened when voters occasionally learn that some of these combatants are actually quite friendly with each other offstage).”
― Hugh Mackay, Australia Reimagined: Towards a More Compassionate, Less Anxious Society

tags: australia, cynical, cynicism, democracy, disrespect, distrust, politics, power

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#154

“A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and misgivings in regard to any great scheme, religious or political, that set out to create universal happiness in one fell swoop; what it was more likely to create, in his opinion, was universal misery; and his faith in heaven-sent saviors was hardly greater.”
― Francois Maspero, Cat's Grin

tags: cynical, politics, religion

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#155

“I know now that I must have glowed for them. I was a flower in a greenhouse, unsullied by the air that everyone else was forced to choke on. Worldliness has its price - cynicism - which I lacked, almost wholly.”
― Barbara Bourland, The Force of Such Beauty

tags: beautiful, cynical

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#156

“Water is bothersome in the boot, let alone in the stomach!”
― Nikola Stefan, Tale of Tales – Part I: A Strange Bunch

tags: analogy, cynical, drinking, humor, humour, life-lessons, questioning, reflection, understanding, wine

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#157

“It just takes little contentment to put fuel in a cynical heart.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: contentment, cynical, happinessiness, hatred, jealousy, quotes, simplicity

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#158

“Cynicism is just a way of evading the truth a little longer.”
― Ian Kirkpatrick, Plead More, Bodymore

tags: cynic, cynical, cynicism, truth, truth-quotes

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#159

“And then I realized that all humans were created for death. They were all born as little struggling innocents, learning to live before they knew what it was about.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher

tags: anne-rice, cynical, lasher, life-and-death

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#160

“Peter had even named it once, when he said that he could always see what other people hated most about themselves, and bully them, while Val could always see what other people liked best about themselves and flatter them. Valentine could persuade other people to her point of view - she could convince them that they wanted what she wanted them to want. Peter, on the other hand, could only make them fear what he wanted them to fear.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

tags: cynical

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#161

“Don’t tell me about voters. Those people are like ants. All they ever do is live for their work and pay tax for us politicians to buy new shoes that we wear to trample on them.”
― Niq Mhlongo, For you I’d steal a goat

tags: corruption, cynical, democracy, nihilism, politics, south-africa

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#162

“He parked the wagon beside the church and left Norah there with Early and orders to stay, no matter what she heard. He had more faith in Early obeying — he tied the dog to the wagon.”
― Ellen O'Connell, Beautiful Bad Man

tags: cynical

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#163

“Yes, I curse God all the time. On some days for giving us such a short life, and on others for giving us such a long one.”
― Abhaidev, That Thing About You

tags: angry, cynical, cynicism, god, god-quotes, life, life-quotes, sarcasm

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#164

“To prosper and to be happy in this life, you have to enter into a Faustian contract with the Prince of Darkness. This is what I realized at last. But it was too late, you see. Even the Devil has a cut-off for age. And they blame these companies, corporations and educational institutes for not being accommodating enough.”
― Abhaidev, The World's Most Frustrated Man

tags: cynical, devil, devil-quotes, humans, prosperity, success, successful, world

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#165

“We romanticize the past with our period dramas and glossy film adaptations. A bit like we do with nature. Nature is violent, unpredictable and unforgiving. Eat or be eaten. That's nature. However much Attenborough or Coldplay you wrap it up in.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Hiding Place

tags: coldplay, cynical, nature

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#166

“It's good to be cynical," he said. "That is, if you know when to stop. Most of the things that we're all taught to respect and reverence- they don't deserve anything but cynicism.”
― Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel

tags: cynical, cynicism, indoctrination-skeptical, question-everything, revere, reverence, skeptic, skepticism, think-for-yourself

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#167

“He didn't mind, though. He hardly noticed at all. Because that's the thing about hope--when it seems that there's no point in moving, it pushes us so forcefully that we come to feel like we /need/ it to keep going...

And that's what hope really is, after all. An anesthetic. Something that takes the sharp edges of reality out of focus just enough that we can keep looking at it, keep moving forward with steps that are guided by the assurance that every inch of ground can't possibly be covered in broken glass. And then when it /is/--- when your feet are left as coiled ribbons of wet skin-- you forget what guided you there in the first place.”
― Dathan Auerbach, Bad Man

tags: cynical, hope, horror, philosophical

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#168

“...if people were scared of you then you were powerful, and if you were powerful, you mattered. Even if you didn't know what mattering was good for.”
― Claire North, 84K

tags: cynical, truth

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#169

“If you’re drowning and a murderer throws you a line, you can’t wait for someone more agreeable to come along.”
― Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

tags: cynical, cynicism, life, moral-dilemma, morality

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#170

“Life is rarely a choice between good and bad, but bad and worse.”
― Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

tags: choice, cynical, cynicism, life, morality

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#171

“When night falls, I ache for you.You are like a fever that has entered my brain and though i try to escape you, though I tell myself I am mad, that nothing good can come from it, that you are like all the others, that you will betray and cause me nothing but pain, in the end I am left with only a gnawing desire to have you in my arms,to kiss you...to make love to you."

-Brett Dangermond”
― Shirlee Busbee, The Tiger Lily

tags: besotted-hero, cynical, desires-quotes, hate-to-want-you, historical-romance, passion

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#172

“Actually," said Gildas, "every marriage is an irreversible mistake. That's the secret which they all keep.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: cynical, dialogue, humor, iris-murdoch, marriage, mistake, the-message-to-the-planet

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#173

“Patty Keene was stupid on purpose, which was the case with most women in Midland City. The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they did not use them much for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies, and the women, if they were going to achieve any sort of comfort and safety, needed all the friends they could get.

So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

tags: cynical, feminism, humor

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#174

“...the secret to success wasn't about being right, merely about appearing to be more right than everybody else.”
― Claire North, 84K

tags: cynical, truth

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#175

“It’s better to be an enemy of the state than a friend: a friend can only be sold, but an enemy can only be bought.”
― Steve Shahbazian, Green and Pleasant Land

tags: cynical, cynicism, enmity, government, politics, power, state

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#176

“Some people are cynical,
yet they know how to make their intentions sound lyrical,
but in the end,
they leave you with scares that are unmistakable".”
― Mireya Rios, Painted Love

tags: bad-intentions, careless-people, carelessness, cynical, fake-people, joke, scares

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#177

“History is a fable agreed upon.”
― David Quammen, The Soul of Viktor Tronko

tags: cynical, cynical-quotes, fable, history, memory

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#178

“He took with him into private life his enemies and his wounds, the only profits that generally accrue to honest people who are guilty of having worked for their country rather than for themselves.”
― Alexander Dumas, The Black Tulip

tags: cynical, honest, humor, witty

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#179

“To pull out, unpleasant burden, from your heart and mind, adopt a way to forgive and forget all cynical subjects, is the inner joy.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

tags: cynical

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#180

“Sometimes I was incredibly frustrated and angry, wondering how these extremes could exist in the same world, let alone in the same church. Sometimes I just got cynical. That was the easiest thing to feel, as cynicism takes very little energy.”
― Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

tags: church, cynical, cynicism

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