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• The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African] governments: rooting out corruption, increased transparency and how government operates, making sure that regulations are not designed just to advantage elites, but are allowing people who have a good idea to get out there and get things done.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Ideas, People

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• Robert Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even - "at least not systematic"; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his Complete Poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest.

  Randall Jarrell

  Reading, Air, Faithful

  "No Other Book: Selected Essays". Book by Randall Jarrell. Chapter: "To the Laodiceans", p. 21, 1999.

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• I try to tell people to keep having hope. It's always what you don't know and don't expect that's gonna be so great.

  Roseanne Barr

  Hope, People, Trying

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• We are troubled, but we have hope and tremendous promise.

  Sara Shandler

  Inspirational, Promise

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• One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hope, Taken, Men

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.290, Faber & Faber

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• When you have hope, and you have peace, you can handle anything.

  Paul Henderson

  Handle

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• "No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"

  Patrick Ness

  Army, Thinking, People

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• You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

  Tony Kushner

  Thinking, Giving, Guilty

  Interview with Andrea Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.

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• And one thing to be remembered: it is not that the people who are poor, starving, become frustrated with life - no. They cannot become frustrated. They have not lived yet - how can they be frustrated? They have hopes. A poor man always has hopes that something is going to happen - if not today then tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow; if not in this life then in the next life.

  Rajneesh

  Men, People, Frustrated

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• Like myself, all Americans have a deep concern for the well-being of Iran. With them I have watched closely your courageous efforts, your steadfastness over the past difficult years, and with them I too have hoped that you might achieve the goals you so earnestly desire. The attainment of an oil settlement along the lines which have been announced should be a significant step in the direction of the realization of your aspirations for your people.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Past, Iran, Years

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• I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing. But now I have hopes and I can be anything. Tomorrow I might be naked with a feather boa, who knows?

  Geri Halliwell

  Wearing Black, Sunglasses, Naked

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• I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

  Joan Baez

  People, Ruins, Individual

  "Q: Didn't hanging out with Dylan and the Beatles feel like intruding on a boys' club? A: Yeah. So I'd make tea. And dry Dylan's sweaty vests". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2006.

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• They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything.

  Maya Angelou

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• We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Afterlife, Want, Path

  "Today" on BBC Radio 4, news.bbc.co.uk. March 01, 2005.

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• When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation. Trust is the only way we're going to make it through and be a part of God's marvelous plan for His child.

  Barbara Johnson

  Hope, Children, Work Out

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• "The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Hope, Long, Situation

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• Beginning writers are often advised to 'write what you know,' and since I knew about quilters - their quirks, their inside jokes, their disputes and their generosity, their quarrels and their kindnesses - the lives of quilters became a natural subject for me. Quilting wove together my two themes as completely and effortlessly as I could have hoped.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Kindness, Writing, Two

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• Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence.

  Martin Seligman

  Hope, Two, Style

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.89, Vintage

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• For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.

  Johnny Depp

  Dream, Dirty, Ambition

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• There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer

  Thinking, Long, Lists

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• The gap between the young people and the rest of society is that...young people don't have hope.

  Sister Souljah

  People, Gaps, Young

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.

  Fran Kranz

  People, Roles, Comedic

  "Fran Kranz Talks The Cabin in the Woods, Much Ado About Nothing, Death of a Salesman and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 10, 2012.

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• We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a default for the first time in our history, and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation.

  Jay Carney

  Jobs, Believe, Growth

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• I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children. And tell them, look, no matter what, you must have hope. You must. When I invoke Camus, who said when there is no hope, you must invent hope. . .hope is something that is not what God gives us. It's like peace. It's a gift that one can give to one another. Only another person can push me to despair. And only another person can push me to hope. Its my choice.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teacher, Children, Giving

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• I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.

  Julianna Baggott

  Believe, Past, Evil

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