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most quoted re "pessimism": oberon (2), Tristan Alexander McLeay (1), Sod (1), Baatar (1), Niko (1)

other categories found with "pessimism": gradschool (3), sadness (3), bad-ideas (2), linguistics (2), philosophy (2)


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[link] heard: 31 July 2005
[edit] added: 31 July 2005

"Yes! I have crushed another hope of innovation!"

linguistics, technology, pessimism
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[link] heard: 8 October 2004
[edit] added: 8 October 2004

"Apparently some people see the glass as half-full, and some see it as a dragon."

John Stewart of the Daily Show, about Bush seeing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
politics, patriotism, pessimism, D&D
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[link] heard: 4 November 2003
[edit] added: 5 November 2003

Matt: "I don't care if the TV is depressed—only if it commits suicide."

oberon: "What if it turns off DDR every 10 minutes and complains that no one loves it?"

Matt: "Well, I do that, but nobody seems to notice."

ddr, misfortune, analogies, pessimism
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[link] heard: 20 October 2003
[edit] added: 20 October 2003

"I could go either way man, and I'm pretty sure if I get cremated I'm going to hell."

pessimism, religion, death
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[link] heard: 28 July 2003
[edit] added: 28 July 2003

(15:45:32) Qatharsis: I'm pessimistic about electrodynamics.

pessimism, school, physics, gradschool
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[link] heard: 15 May 2008
[edit] added: 15 May 2008

(19:13:11) kesuari: well, i suppose they say one way to become a great artist is to copy everyone else

(19:13:26) kesuari: well, copy the great artists i mean

(19:13:37) kesuari: someone who wanted to paint well shouldn't copy any drawings i've done

misparsings, wisdom, bad-ideas, artsiness, analogies, stupidity, sadness, pessimism, philosophy
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[link] heard: 17 November 2009
[edit] added: 17 November 2009

"If you're lying, then the other person is probably lying too. And if you're not lying, the other person is probably still lying."

philosophy, life, sadness, pessimism
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[link] heard: 29 November 2010
[edit] added: 29 November 2010

"He lost my attention so fast, it actually made a noise."

sadness, badness, gradschool, college, pessimism, imagination
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[link] heard: 13 January 2011
[edit] added: 16 January 2011

CB: "There's one rule about language comparison—"

Niko: "Don't trust a Russian?"

russian, linguistics, hyperbole, insightfulness, SSSR, provincialism, pessimism, insults, incompetence, ethnocentrism, cynicism, gradschool, bad-ideas, academia
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