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" Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so. "
P. J. O'Rourke
World
Job
Hope
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" The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind. "
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" No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. "
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" I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child. "
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" After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States. "
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Here
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" As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world. "
John Burroughs
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" I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God. "
Kelly Clarkson
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Want
Think
" I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future. "
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" To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope. "
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
Confront
Finish
Hope
" The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget. "
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Over
Again
Government
" Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one. "
John Lennon
You
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Life
" Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001. "
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Something
Among
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" My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. "
Ovid
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Hopes
Always
" If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed. "
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Say
You
Good
" The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Forever
Body
Long
" I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value. "
Guido van Rossum
Value
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" I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?' "
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New York
You
City
" I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny. "
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Home
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" I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with. "
Zinedine Zidane
" I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. "
Benjamin Disraeli
Hope
Best
I Am
" If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination. "
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Imagination
Look
" Writing is agony. I hate it. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Writing
Agony
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" We now should hope and pray for a peace process. We've had good negotiations with both sides. Those are going to continue; those are going to be a commitment by the president and something that we're going to work hard on. And we all hope, for the sake of Israeli children and Palestinian children, that we do have peace. "
Nikki Haley
Now
Peace
Children
" On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag! "
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Hope
" There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also. "
Melissa Etheridge
Me
View
You
" One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. "
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Memory
Lives
" Never wear anything that panics the cat. "
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" Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks. "
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People
Last
" Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines. "
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Islamic
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" A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking. "
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" You hope your buddies will win so you don't have to loan them any money. "
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