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" But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. "
George Eliot
Painful
Call
Despair
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" Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. "
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" I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow. "
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" Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks. "
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" I only hope that He will let me preach to those who have never heard that name Jesus. What else is worthwhile in this life? I have heard of nothing better. 'Lord, send me!' "
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" I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on. "
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World
" I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy. "
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" Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. "
Norman Cousins
Apparatus
Logic
Independent
" Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire. "
Max Weber
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" Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins. "
George Eliot
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You
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" Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it. "
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Bad
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Boy
" Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. "
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Most
" In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. "
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Nature
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" An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. "
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May
" The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. "
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Charm
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Fishing
" When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate. "
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" Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. "
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Will
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" As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking. "
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Gun
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" The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.' "
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Cruelty
Ignorant
May
" As for restitutions, to nobody in particular do I owe any, but as for those I owe to the realm, I hope in the mercy of God. "
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God
Owe
Nobody
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