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" Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. "

Pliny the Elder

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" I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them! "

" If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. "

" What do actors really want? To be great actors? Yes, but you can't buy talent, so it's best to leave the word 'great' out of it. I think to be believed, onstage or onscreen, is the one hope that all actors share. "

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" When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way. "

" I hope you'll find that my campaign was a reflection of how I plan to govern - bringing people together, building coalitions, and finding common ground. "

" There's nothing I don't know about war. The stench of it. But I say that without any pride. War is a terrible thing. My hope is that you'll get that through looking at one of my pictures. "

" I hope with all my heart and soul that every young man who receives the priesthood will honor that priesthood and be true to the trust which is conveyed when it is conferred. May each of us who holds the priesthood of God know what he believes. "

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" Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass. "

" Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" While there's life, there's hope. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving. "

" I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for. "

" We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord. "

" I'm feeling pretty good right now, but I hope we can just win the whole thing and I can run off into the sunset and say good-bye. "

" That's all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. 'Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they're also the most doubtful beings. They'll never know - we'll never know - how powerful we are. "

" One year, my good deed started with deciding to give all my friends makeup from a cruelty-free cosmetics line that I love. I did this with the hope that they would love it as much as I do and end up switching their makeup over to that cruelty-free line forever. "

" People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today. "

" But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. "

" How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be found upon the face of the earth: in a word, nothing but what is provided ready to our hands! "

Pliny the Elder

" The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin. "

" As you get older, it's good to open up and acknowledge that everybody has their scary moments, their negative moments. And in order to move on and find comfort and hope, you have to stop running from the darkness and face it. And when you face it, it's not that scary at all, and sometimes it actually turns around and runs away. "

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" The only certainty is that nothing is certain. "

Pliny the Elder

" There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. "

" Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others. "

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" Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker. "

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