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There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.
-David Rakoff
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There's Nothing Particularly Wrong With Being More

David Rakoff
There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.
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