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• All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.

  Og Mandino

  Life, Hope, Sadness

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• Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

  Melody Beattie

  Hope, Sadness, Trying

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• Finally, in October 1945, a man with swampy eyes, feathers of hair, and a clean-shaven face walked into the shop. He approached the counter. "Is there someone here by the name of Leisel Meminger?" "Yes, she's in the back," said Alex. He was hopeful, but he wanted to be sure. "May I ask who is calling on her?" Leisel came out. They hugged and cried and fell to the floor.

  Markus Zusak

  Eye, Men, Hair

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• ...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

  Opening Up, Dangerous, Crisis

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• It's very common to say that Star Wars in the late '70s, that was kind of perfect for Cold War culture and the aftermath of Vietnam in the '60s to have an upbeat, hopeful, cartoonish tale of a hero's journey. I think those explanations are easy to offer and almost always wrong.

  Cass Sunstein

  Stars, War, Hero

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• The goal is to be free and hopeful in the music. Because that's really the only intention you need. From there, every natural and powerful intention and feeling will, on its own, slide right out of you - out of your spirit.

  Alex Ebert

  Powerful, Goal, Feelings

  "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always greatly hopeful belief that somewhere and some time it would wash up on land on heartland perhaps.

  Edward Hirsch

  Land, Holocaust, Bottles

  "How to Read a Poem". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• People are concerned over safety and spillage, especially for the workers. Were all really hopeful even though we remain deeply concerned over the safety and the efficacy of an unproven technology.

  Paul Walker

  Technology, People, Safety

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• By promoting liberty abroad, we will build a safer world. By encouraging liberty at home, we will build a more hopeful America.

  George W. Bush

  Home, America, Liberty

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 2 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance, said the Ellen Ward of my dream, that woman I hate and fear. I am sure she meant some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning together from the vertical which produces the false arch.

  Wallace Stegner

  Two, Brain, Together

  "Angle of Repose".

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• Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Thinking, Perfect, Democracy

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• Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

  Euripides

  Men, Thousand, Ten

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.58, University of Chicago Press

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• The most important thing for me is that I've used my talents as a writer to enable the Ogoni people to confront their tormentors. I was not able to do it as a politician or a businessman. My writing did it. And it sure makes me feel good! I'm mentally prepared for the worst, but hopeful for the best. I think I have the moral victory.

  Ken Saro-Wiwa

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Ken Saro-Wiwa (1995). “A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary”, Penguin Group USA

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• I will say that I appreciate Hillary Clinton's awareness and passion for women. I think she is overqualified in the sense that she's been in the White House, so she knows the drill. I am hopeful that she will continue to support minorities and create better opportunities.

  Nia Long

  Passion, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• That something that really concerns me because I have good reason to believe and be hopeful, rather, this was the best posture of any Republican in history towards LGBTQ issues.

  Margaret Hoover

  Believe, Issues, Republican

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.

  Arsene Wenger

  Unbeaten, Frightening, Stills

  "Wenger's Word Games Backfire". news.bbc.co.uk. May 04, 2003.

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• In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness.

  Carre Otis

  Past, Next, Slippery Slope

  "A Healing Balance" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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• When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Negative, Way, Frightening

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My view is that our minds are incredibly powerful animals that are, during life, kept somewhat in check by the load of our bodies. Once that load is gone (or so some ancient texts teach us) the mind is like a horse off the tether. So the habits we get into here might have something to do with what happens to us afterwards. An exciting but harrowing idea, given the everyday state of my mind. But also hopeful, since that's something a person can work with.

  George Saunders

  Horse, Powerful, Animal

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• My first kiss was with a girlfriend. And it was at a party. I think I was hopeful that that would happen, but I didn't plan it. You know, honestly, I think if there's a little too much planning, it's almost just like self-sabotage. Because then, you want it to go a certain way and it just doesn't. And then you're like, 'Awww, why!?!'

  Tyler Blackburn

  Girlfriend, Party, Kissing

  "Exclusive Interview: PLL's Tyler Blackburn". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. February 22, 2011.

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• I'm very hopeful that we'll see some change in our food system. I don't know how far we'll go, or how quickly we'll get there, but there is no question that a significant percentage of the American public is dissatisfied with the food system.

  Michael Pollan

  Significant, Percentages, Know How

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Honesty, Intellectual, Age

  Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy (2001). “The Power of Ideas”, p.52, Princeton University Press

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• The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in which we're ruled by big talking turds, it doesn't mean that we are. So you shouldn't feel depressed.

  George Saunders

  Mean, Talking, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I want my work to always be hopeful, in the end. You're giving me two hours, and, in Shots Fired's case, 10 hours of your life. I don't want you to ever leave something I've done feeling worse than when you came in. I hope the work can be aspirational, and aspirational doesn't have to be corny at all.

  Gina Prince-Bythewood

  Two, Giving, Feelings

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.

  Lily Koppel

  Notebook, Waiting

  "Dear Diary...I Want to be Famous" by Lily Koppel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

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