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Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.

Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.

John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?

John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.72, Princeton University Press

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.52

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, "Mind", 1922.

What difference, at this point, does it make?

Hillary Rodham Clinton (2014). “Hard Choices”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable.

Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.258, New Directions Publishing