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“Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the level of the cultural unconscious. It should be remembered...”
“Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.”
“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.”
“A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin.”
“Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.”
“There is nothing to which men while they have food and drink cannot reconcile themselves.”
“Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.”
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl vigilant in darkness and blind to light mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game....”
