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• I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

  Peter Benchley

  Suicide, Suicidal, Anticipation

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• In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don’t think there’s a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Thinking, America

  "An interview with accidental movie star Al Gore". Interview with David Roberts, grist.org. May 10, 2006.

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• We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving, Want, Persons

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• Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread; go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!

  Charles Dickens

  Teacher, Spring, Ignorance

  Charles Dickens (1844). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, His Relatives, Friends and Enemies: Comprising All His Wills and His Ways, with an Historical Record of what He Did, and what He Didn't ...”, p.245

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• From the 12th Congressional District Hopeful William Jefferson Clinton during the Nixon investigations.
  I wanted to share some information I've turned up regarding two of your Clinton quotes.

  Keith Richards

  Two, Presidential, Information

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• I think it reflects the reality on the ground, that this was an important milestone that's been achieved by the Iraqi people, and it's a significant development. It's a real hopeful moment for democracy in Iraq.

  Scott McClellan

  Real, Thinking, Iraq

  "Bush says Iraq stands at 'turning point' / Leading Democrat calls for country to be split into sections" by Edward Epstein, www.sfgate.com. May 2, 2006.

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• We're hopeful it won't climb much more than that (10 percent). The reality is we're all looking at the price per gallon of gasoline and heating oil, and even cord wood, and we're seeing prices that are volatile and I don't think anybody can accurately predict what we'll be paying for these commodities in two weeks, let alone two months.

  Martin Murray

  Reality, Thinking, Two

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• I've always been very hopeful but I also know that as long as you've got a good work ethic, almost anything is achievable and I learned that in the armed forces.

  Simon Weston

  Long, Work Ethic, Ethics

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.

  Miriam Makeba

  Music, Song, Determination

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• There's a way to accomplish the separation of church and state and at the same time accomplish the social objective of having America become a hopeful place and loving place.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, America, Church

  "Bush Renews Faith-Based Agenda Push". www.foxnews.com. June 01, 2004.

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• The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions.

  David Sheff

  Recovery, Feel Better, Decision

  "Clean: An Interview with David Sheff". Interview with Cathy Taughinbaugh, cathytaughinbaugh.com.

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• The CRAFT approach, developed by Bob Meyers at U of New Mexico, is one set of important tools that DO work, and it feels great to see families using these strategies and getting results, feeling hopeful again, feeling empowered, getting support, learning to trust themselves again, getting their lives and the lives of their children back.

  Jeff Foote

  Children, Recovery, Support

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• What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and respect and of feeling at one with it. The other attitude which is the one our society is based on is devastating and it is killing the earth and it is killing us too.

  W. S. Merwin

  Attitude, Believe, Feelings

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• But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others. On this subject they are gaining daily in the opinions of nations, and hopeful advances are making towards their re- establishment on an equal footing with the other colors of the human family.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Color, Understanding

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.219, Rowman & Littlefield

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• On conflicts, generally speaking, the world is a hell of a lot better to live in today than it was thirty years ago, despite what's going on in Syria. There are definitely hopeful signs that the world is moving, decade by decade, in the right direction.

  Richard Branson

  Moving, Years, World

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.

  Lana Del Rey

  Trust No One, Alive, Want

  "'It's Electrifying': Lana Del Rey Opens Up About Love as She Poses in a Sheer Trenchcoat for Magazine Interview". www.dailymail.co.uk. January 25, 2012.

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• There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love... In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Wise, Gratitude, Humble

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Confidence, Disposition, Mark

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• Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.

  Emil Brunner

  Positive

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• Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

  Jim Wallis

  Nonsense, Process, Changed

  Twitter post from Apr 13, 2017

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• Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree of symmetry was hidden from us in everyday life. The physicist's task is to find this deeper symmetry.

  Steven Weinberg

  Science, Ideas, Everyday

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• We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily... But although the symmetries are hidden from us, we can sense that they are latent in nature, governing everything about us. That's the most exciting idea I know: that nature is much simpler than it looks. Nothing makes me more hopeful that our generation of human beings may actually hold the key to the universe in our hands - that perhaps in our lifetimes we may be able to tell why all of what we see in this immense universe of galaxies and particles is logically inevitable.

  Steven Weinberg

  Nature, Science, Keys

  "The Key to the Universe: A Report on the New Physics". Book by Nigel Calder, 1977.

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• That whisper you keep hearing is the universe trying to get your attention.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Hope

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• I'm not personally fearful, but I look out, and there are a number of things that concern me, and I'm hopeful that we can overcome them.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Numbers, Overcoming, Looks

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I'm not really one of these people who's been known for particularly hopeful sentiments.

  El-P

  People, Sentiments, Known

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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