defeatist attitude

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I can see no hope at present of such a vaccine being produced... I have adopted a frankly defeatist attitude towards the problem of poliomyelitis and I hope that future developments will prove me wrong... No means of controlling poliomyelitis is at present visible. Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Geraldine: We must tell the truth! Prentice: That's a thoroughly defeatist attitude. Joe Orton

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict. Carroll Shelby

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