#romantics

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics. ↗

— William Goldman

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Romantics consider common sense vulgar. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security. ↗

— James Buchan

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