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• I call my philosophy and approach compassionate conservatism. It is compassionate to actively help our fellow citizens in need. It is conservative to insist on responsibility and results. And with this hopeful approach, we will make a real difference in people's lives.

  George W. Bush

  Philosophy, Real, Responsibility

  Address on Compassionate Conservatism, delivered 30 April 2002, San Jose, California

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• The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

  Sarah Silverman

  Smart, Mean, Cynical

  FaceBook post by Sarah Silverman from Mar 16, 2011

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• Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It is the means for conquering poverty at the lowest rung of society, the basis on which children and the elderly are cared for, the foundation for the cultivation of arts and learning. Crush an economy and you crush civilization.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Crush, Art, Children

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• I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After a performance I am always hopeful that I will lure someone home for a ritual of a more personal nature.

  Vaginal Davis

  Home, Sentimental, Ritual

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.

  John Irving

  Country, Thinking, President

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• Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

  Karl Rove

  Important, Culture, Want

  'FOX News Sunday', www.foxnews.com. November 8, 2004.

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• Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.

  George W. Bush

  Freedom, Allies, Hats

  George W. Bush “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004”, Government Printing Office

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• It's often hope, hopeful movie making. You're always looking for catchphrases. That's always funny, when you're looking for that future line. "Uh oh, future line. Okay."

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Okay

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• When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.

  Cory Booker

  Be Kind, Discouraged, Angry

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Mar 02, 2016

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• If we try to prohibit encryption or discourage it or make it more difficult to use, we're going to suffer the consequences that will be far reaching and very difficult to reverse, and we seem to have realized that in the wake of the September 11th attacks. To the extent there is any reason to be hopeful, perhaps that's where we'll end up here.

  Matt Blaze

  September 11, Suffering, Trying

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I'm telling America we need to not discriminate against faith-based programs. We need to welcome them so our society is more wholesome, more welcoming, and more hopeful for every single citizen.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, America, Citizens

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• In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

  Don McLean

  Song, Pie, American Pie

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• ... to be afraid is in a way to be hopeful, because to be afraid means that you haven't given up. You know it doesn't help, but you keep thrashing. The monster has you pinned to the wall, but you're not ready to say, 'Oh, hell, eat me.

  Betty Rollin

  Wall, Mean, Monsters

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• when I am working I immediately feel hopeful.

  May Sarton

  Feels

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• Meditation is a bright, hopeful practice in which we learn to make our mind quiet so that the infinite, perfect light of enlightenment can flow through us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Practice

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• When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.

  John Lewis

  Philosophy, Optimistic, People

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• For the air of youth,
  Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign
  A melancholy damp of cold and dry
  To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume
  The balm of life.

  John Milton

  Air, Blood, Cheerful

  John Milton (1842). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.494

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• Life seems somehow less shocking, painful, and lonely - and more hopeful, agreeable, and beautiful - when our experiences are confirmed by those of others. Although each of us is unique, there are familiar responses and doubts and joys that let us know we have kin. We are not, after all, too strange to live.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Family, Friends, Beautiful

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• It seems to me to be a way to give the Clinton Administration an opportunity to sidestep the issue of whether to announce they're going to withdraw from the ABM treaty, or whether they're going to go ahead and proceed with construction and be hopeful the Russians are not going to accuse them of violating the treaty.

  Thad Cochran

  Opportunity, Issues, Giving

  " Administration lawyers argue ABM treaty allows start on missile defense system", www.cnn.com. June 15, 2000.

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• Oh, yesterday, that one, we all cry out. Oh, that one! How rich and possible everything was! How ripe, ready, lavish, and filled with excitement--how hopeful we were on those summer days, under the clean, white racing clouds. Oh, yesterday!

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, White, Yesterday

  Mary Oliver (2000). “Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!

  Piers Anthony

  Doe, Lessons, Firsts

  Piers Anthony (2012). “Bearing an Hourglass”, p.359, Del Rey

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• Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that.

  Brie Larson

  Mean, Thinking, Perfect

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I've learned anything in the more than 50 years that I've led MDA, it's that the generosity of the American people knows no bounds. I'm sure that with their fellow citizens in such dire need, they'll dig deep and do everything they can to help. I'm hopeful that many people will be willing to make two phone calls and donate to both causes.

  Jerry Lewis

  Phones, Years, Two

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• We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Children, Giving, Hopeful Future

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• California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world. . . . You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time -- you're going to have to make it.

  William J. Clinton

  Race, California, Balance

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