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Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.

Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.
– Criss Jami

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  2. The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. – Criss Jami
  3. Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny. – Criss Jami
  4. The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior. – Boyd K Packer
  5. Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. – Ambrose Bierce
  6. The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – GK Chesterton
  7. Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time. – Arab proverb
  8. When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. – Criss Jami
  9. Karna is a good man, but he sees good even in what is bad. His seeing it as good doesn’t make the bad good, but makes his goodness look bad. – Kavita Kan
  10. It’s much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity. – Criss Jami
  11. When the vision becomes right [correct], one sees only his own faults and when the vision is wrong [incorrect], he sees others at fault. – Dada Bhagwan
  12. I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism – one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded. – Criss Jami
  13. A man with a victim mentality feels like being a victim who is complaining and crying all the time – Sunday Adelaja
  14. I will not be a victim. I will not think like a victim. I am going to avenge all those little girls. I am going to win. – Carolyn Lee Adams
  15. If I know something, I am not a victim. Victims don’t know the meaning of their suffering. I am an enemy or a collaborator, not a victim. – Rachel Klein
  16. Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  17. Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth. – Robert Ludlum
  18. I am neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, I am a man, I am a vampire. – Michael Romkey
  19. Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic. – Guy Delisle
  20. The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration. – Criss Jami
  21. The world sees you for what you are, but the universe sees you for what you can be. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  22. Where the world only sees a seed, an optimist sees a tree. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  23. I’m often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush. – Criss Jami
  24. The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad. – Criss Jami
  25. To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good. – Criss Jami
  26. Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad. – Criss Jami
  27. Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all. – Criss Jami
  28. No one else sees you as the villain here, but you gotta stop being a victim babe. – Jordan Silver
  29. I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality – Mahatma Gandhi
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  32. I’m not a cynic. I am a realist. – Sonya Watson
  33. Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle-”that is, being human. – Hugh MacLeod
  34. There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. – Maya Angelou
  35. One shouldn’t be labelled a cynic just because one refuses to believe in fairy tales. – Marty Rubin
  36. She might be a natural-born cynic, but she knew the right word when she heard it. – Kate DiCamillo
  37. Scratch a cynic and you will find a disappointed romantic. – Christopher Moore
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  39. I was young–so young–naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call. – Helen Picca
  40. Despair sees no hope, while hope sees no despair. – Jim George

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