"Cynics are simply thwarted romantics." — William Goldman

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• Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. — Tony Blair
• Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this… — Jeff Bridges
• The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing… — Adolf Hitler
• War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and… — Chris Hedges
• Courage has you say in a defiant spirit you can take everything from me, you could cut me deep, you… — Cory Booker
• Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics. — Robin Sharma
• To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you, ... I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great… — Lance Armstrong
• What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values… — Albert Einstein
• I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying. — Robert Redford
• I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing… — Jamie Oliver
• I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream.… — Tzipi Livni
• Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting… — Peter Senge

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