There are times when I think that the reading that I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive.
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Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today, you cant help but feel that life is a terrible complexity of problems. But if you look back a few thousand years, you realize that we have advanced fantastically. If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of mankind.Robertson Davies
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