Word: pessimistic
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...than then Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. Gates' nickname in the first Bush White House was Eyeore: no matter the topic, he always seemed to worry about the worst-case scenario. Gates, who has a healthy sense of humor, was usually the first to admit he was the in-house pessimist...
...also that weird part above the gums--says that when she's feeling stressed or sorry for herself, she just remembers the 10-fingers, 10-toes rule her uncle taught her: If you've got those, you have nothing to complain about. She makes Annie look like a pessimist...
...preface this by saying I wouldn't wish it on anybody. But I do think I'm stronger. I'm more optimistic. You'd think I'd be a real pessimist, but when you handle adversity, it gives you an up feeling. I attach a value to life that I might not otherwise, because I see the other side. But I wish I could say it had never happened...
...mindless optimism, sort of more genetic than thought controlled. I do tend to trust this country to come up with the right answers eventually. And I tend to trust the people in government, even though I didn't vote for them. So in that way, I'm not a pessimist--I'm not a naysayer. On the other hand, when you look at the world as it evolves, you can't help but miss things...
...optimist about technology you also have to be a pessimist, because in believing in its power to yield incredible benefits, you also have to acknowledge the potential for enormous damage. Fiction can be a kind of Gedankenexperiment where you try to chart a course between the damage and the benefit. The Bitchun Society isn’t as utopian as it seems; it has some pretty dramatic failings. It’s a society in which minority viewpoints have no protection, in which your ability to be heard is directly correlated to your popularity. If all your society protects...