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{{quote|''"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 the darkness and blind to the light, always pursuing vermin and never hunting noble game."''|'''Henry Ward Beecher'''}}
{{quote|''"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 the darkness and blind to the light, always pursuing vermin and never hunting noble game."''|'''Henry Ward Beecher'''}}


{{quote|''"The scene's about the characters, and it's a nice scene, but I'm not here to accentuate what's nice."''|'''D. R. McLeod''', [[The Agony Booth (Website)|The Agony Booth]]'s [http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Hulk_2003.aspx recap of] ''[[Hulk (Film)|Hulk]] (2003)''}}
{{quote|''"The scene's about the characters, and it's a nice scene, but I'm not here to accentuate what's nice."''|'''D. R. McLeod''', [[The Agony Booth]]'s [http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Hulk_2003.aspx recap of] ''[[Hulk (film)|Hulk]] (2003)''}}


{{quote|'''Amanda Honeydew:''' Gosh, this place looks so tiny! I remember it was huge!<br />
{{quote|'''Amanda Honeydew:''' Gosh, this place looks so tiny! I remember it was huge!<br />
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{{quote|''"I think these are passages we can skim past. They're awful, of course, but awful in a pedestrian way. I'm more interested in the more'' instructively ''awful passages of this book."''|'''Fred Clarke''', on ''[[Left Behind|Tribulation Force]]''}}
{{quote|''"I think these are passages we can skim past. They're awful, of course, but awful in a pedestrian way. I'm more interested in the more'' instructively ''awful passages of this book."''|'''Fred Clarke''', on ''[[Left Behind|Tribulation Force]]''}}


{{quote|''"I know we mainly focused on the shitty aspects, but let me tell you, '''that's the name of the game'''."''|'''[[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]]''', [http://www.cinemassacre.com/new/?p=3964 "DoubleVision Part 2, ColecoVision"]}}
{{quote|''"I know we mainly focused on the shitty aspects, but let me tell you, '''that's the name of the game'''."''|'''[[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]''', [http://www.cinemassacre.com/new/?p=3964 "DoubleVision Part 2, ColecoVision"]}}


{{quote| '''First Person:''' These autumn leaves sure are nice.<br />
{{quote| '''First Person:''' These autumn leaves sure are nice.<br />
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{{quote|"So class, the question I have to ask you is, why are you all so jaded and negative? Almost all the time, I hear you guys griping about something and are almost ''always'' finding something to complain about. When I was your age, that was actually considered ''annoying''. What made the sudden change?" <br />
{{quote|"So class, the question I have to ask you is, why are you all so jaded and negative? Almost all the time, I hear you guys griping about something and are almost ''always'' finding something to complain about. When I was your age, that was actually considered ''annoying''. What made the sudden change?" <br />
"Things have changed since you were a kid, Professor '''[name censored]''', when you were a teen, being able to see the good in anything and anyone like Anne Frank or [[The Pollyanna|Pollyanna]] was considered admirable and a genius. Even then, people wanted to look smart and mature, and they did so by acting like Anne Frank. Nowadays, the only thing that changed was how people view 'smart' or 'mature' as. Today, your intelligence and maturity is inversely proportional to your attitude rather than directly. Someone like Anne Frank or Pollyanna ''today'' would be assumed to be mentally retarded, immature, ignorant, or flamboyantly gay. I think you can blame shows like ''[[Daria]]'', ''[[House (TV)|House]]'', and ''[[Malcolm in The Middle (TV)|Malcolm in The Middle]]'' for instilling the image that smart people are ''always'' cynical, jaded, rude, and generally all around a 'Negative Nelly'."|An exchange that happened in a Philosophy class. }}
"Things have changed since you were a kid, Professor '''[name censored]''', when you were a teen, being able to see the good in anything and anyone like Anne Frank or [[The Pollyanna|Pollyanna]] was considered admirable and a genius. Even then, people wanted to look smart and mature, and they did so by acting like Anne Frank. Nowadays, the only thing that changed was how people view 'smart' or 'mature' as. Today, your intelligence and maturity is inversely proportional to your attitude rather than directly. Someone like Anne Frank or Pollyanna ''today'' would be assumed to be mentally retarded, immature, ignorant, or flamboyantly gay. I think you can blame shows like ''[[Daria]]'', ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', and ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'' for instilling the image that smart people are ''always'' cynical, jaded, rude, and generally all around a 'Negative Nelly'."|An exchange that happened in a Philosophy class. }}


{{quote|''"I’d much rather be doing comedy on a beach in a tiki bar on Costa Rica right now, but they don’t have comedy there, they don’t need comedians, because they’re already smiling naturally. Comedy works when people are miserable and for that reason alone, you are the best audiences on Earth."''|'''Doug Stanhope'''}}
{{quote|''"I’d much rather be doing comedy on a beach in a tiki bar on Costa Rica right now, but they don’t have comedy there, they don’t need comedians, because they’re already smiling naturally. Comedy works when people are miserable and for that reason alone, you are the best audiences on Earth."''|'''Doug Stanhope'''}}
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