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The philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, whose offhand remarks were celebrated enough to have been collected, is here only for his famous retort to a speaker who had said that although there are many cases in which two negatives make a positive, he knew of no case in which two positives made a negative ("Yeah yeah").
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I don't want to sound negative but yeah, a good six … that makes me feel excited.
If everyone around you is a Negative Nancy, then yeah, you're much more likely to be down about everything.
If all of your friends are negative and discouraging, then yeah, it'll be hard to have a positive mindset and to feel like you shouldn't give up.
If you've got a powerful negative message that resonates with voters, then yeah, it's going to work.
Yeah, but they're not negative 30 percent.
At the time, yeah, it was difficult to read negative things, but I knew it would pass.
"Last one: 'Hopeless.' Yeah!" "The game implementation is about smashing those negative thoughts," Leidner said.
Yeah, right (a rare example of two positives making a negative).
A colleague had said that while a double negative equaled a positive, a double positive is never a negative, and Morgenbesser offered as a succinct rebuttal, "Yeah yeah".
Make me think of, not think of the negative stuff, just zone out like just like see some like funny stuff, like yeah…" (Indigenous, age 19).
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