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"Isn’t it telling that in modern usage the realist has become synonymous with the cynic–for someone with a pessimistic outlook? In truth, it’s the cynic who’s out of touch." (from "Humankind: A Hopeful History" by Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton)

Rule of thumb: Anything involving the future is an over-optimistic lie.

Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

habitual cynicism

Elif Shafak • The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel

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Rohit • Our love of authenticity rises as all the world became a stage

True cynics would never classify themselves as such, because it would mean that they know their view of the world is unjustly negative; despite their best efforts at being grumpy, a self-described cynic is secretly optimistic about normal human nature.

Chuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

I have taken a lot of happiness from a sense - often grandiose and sometimes illusory - that I am, by my various actions, helping create a future that will be more free, more tolerant, more open, and more just.

John Perry Barlow • Evernote Viewer

just invented a belief that only comes true if you believe it. but if you don’t then you are evil

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