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" Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. "

William Butler Yeats

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" My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here. "

" I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life. "

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" There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. "

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" Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. "

" I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly. "

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" I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. "

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" The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on. "

" I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem. "

" I don't believe that I'm better than anybody, but I do believe that I'll try harder than most and I hope that people just join me for a little bit of a ride. "

" I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it. "

" I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active. "

" I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope fellow sufferers will know it's completely controllable. I hope I can help remove any stigma attached to it, and that those who don't have it under control will seek help with all that is available to treat it. "

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" I hope I'm saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind. "

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" Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear. "

" To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful. "

William Butler Yeats

" My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it's good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable. "

" My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think. "

" Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. "

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" I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. "

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" I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists. "

Marquis de Condorcet

" America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage. "

" I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records. "

" Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

" My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights. "

Malala Yousafzai

" When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred. "

" There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope. "

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" Even if my fellow man has proven faithless time after time, I can at least retain a hope that he will improve, pray for him, and think kindly without frustration and disappointment. "

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" Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. "

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" Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. "