"I have never seen a situation so dismal……" — Brendan Behan

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• When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely. — Margaret Atwood
• We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life. — Northrop Frye
• The home is under siege. So many families are being destroyed...If anyone can change the dismal situation into which we… — Gordon B. Hinckley
• Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these… — Jimmy Carter
• To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole… — Charles Dickens
• About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for… — Joshua Slocum
• When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use… — W. S. Gilbert
• So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first… — Robert Louis Stevenson
• All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a… — Miguel de Unamuno
• There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard… — M.F.K. Fisher
• Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand'… — Thomas Carlyle
• Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy — Thomas Carlyle

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