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• The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

  Eugene O'Neill

  Funny, Children, Kissing

  1927 Tiberius. Lazarus Laughed, act 4, sc.1.

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• The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some striking facts to find that he had, at the end of all his criss-cross journeys, at last accomplished at least one step which was conclusively nearer the truth.

  Max Planck

  Hard Work, Science, Journey

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• Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.

  Glen Duncan

  Life, Addiction, Twists

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• Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.

  Joyce Meyer

  Ripple, Persons

  Twitter post from Jun 1, 2012

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• If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash, or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless situation is almost incredible - but there it is.

  Robert W. Hemphill

  Commercial Banks, Bankers, Dollars

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• I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.

  Johnny Cash

  Black, Towns, Sides

  Song: The Man In Black

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• Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious "right" a revolution was fought.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Running, Sheep, Names

  "Voters Strike". Short story by Octave Mirbeau, 1888.

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• This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

  Deborah Copaken

  Crazy, Doe, Achieve

  "Heroine of the Day: Deborah Copaken Kogan" by Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. April 11, 2013.

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• In the present age, man proves his separation from his Creator by his spirit of self-sufficienc y and positive rejection of God. The present issue between God and man is one of whether man will accept God's estimate of him, abandon his hopeless self-struggle, and cast himself only on God who alone is sufficient to accomplish his needed transformation.

  Lewis Sperry Chafer

  Struggle, Men, Self

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• No matter how hopeless or bleak things appear, the moment always comes when suddenly our spirit revives, and hope is reborn. That is why we must never give up.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Giving Up, Matter, Spirit

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• I’m always going to be a hopeless romantic. Always.

  Taylor Swift

  Hopeless Romantic

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• Do you laugh in the right places? Then, you’ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something that’s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if it’s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.

  Carole Lombard

  Weather, Laughing, Ego

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• Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.

  Robert Smithson

  Form, Seems, Inadequate

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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• The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains. Such is the nature of the 'competition' between the strong and the weak of the intellect. Such is the pattern of 'exploitation' for which you have damned the strong.

  Ayn Rand

  Strong, Men, Egalitarianism

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.152, Penguin

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• It seems to me that self confidence and the ability to stand one's ground are essential if we want to succeed in life. I am not talking of stupid self-assurance but of an awareness of our inner potential, a certainty that we can always correct our behavior, improve ourselves, enrich ourselves, and that things are never hopeless

  Dalai Lama

  Stupid, Self Confidence, Talking

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• Without the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Grace, Ends

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Apr 24, 2013

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• It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

  Charles Dickens

  Believe, Long, People

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Nicholas Nickleby. Martin Chuzzlewit. American notes”, p.164

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• A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

  Thomas Merton

  Despair, May, Problem

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Dark, World

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• Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.

  Newt Gingrich

  Education, School, Students

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• By nature I will find hope in everything. Even if it's the most incredibly hopeless situation or circumstance. That's just me... I'll never be able to see things any other way.

  Michael Stipe

  Hope, Able, Way

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• In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose. At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse, which stood on the horizon as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable gray of a dawning morning in Bavaria. "Et lux in tenebris lucet"-and the light shineth in the darkness.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Morning, Light, Darkness

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.37, Beacon Press

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• To all those broken or hopeless, I have learned this: Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story. The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. The ones that came, and the ones that left. They all taught you. Don't think for a moment that any of it was random. There are no oversights with God. Only perfectly crafted chapters in each unique journey.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Hurt, Grateful, Unique

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• Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

  Joy Williams

  Writing, Grace, Doe

  Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.184, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.

  Jerry Garcia

  Real, Thinking, People

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