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• I felt saddened and confused to discover my favorite mural gone, but also hopeful that another one may be in the works. Street art is mysterious and impermanent like that. It can appear or disappear overnight. Murals like these are at risk of desecration, transformation, erasure. Someone's gonna piss on it, draw a mustache on it, tag it. The weather's going to make it fade. That's part of the beauty, I think. Murals have value without being precious.

  Emily Raboteau

  Art, Confused, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm also very hopeful to continue my literary journey into the realm of children's books. To be able to read my kids a children's book that was inspired by them would be everything!

  Trista Sutter

  Children, Book, Kids

  "Trista Sutter from The Bachelorette: Spreading the Gift of Gratitude". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.

  O. Carl Simonton

  Faces, Uncertainty

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• My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Taught Us, Parent, Hateful

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!

  John Waters

  Attitude, Nice, Stupid

  John Waters (2007). “Crackpot: The Obsessions of”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope is man's preparation for the unknown.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Men, Preparation

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.399, Aum Publications

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• There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or rejected, because it is bound up with modern technique; it is essential alike to prosperity in peace and to victory in war. That is, perhaps from an intellectual point of view, the most hopeful feature of our age, and the one which makes it most likely that we shall escape complete submersion in some new or old superstition.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Spring, War

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• I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

  Eric Cantor

  People, Cost, Care

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• War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

  George Meade

  War, Looks, Assuming

  "The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade". Book by George Meade, 1913.

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• If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed

  John Lewis

  Giving Up, Believe, Optimistic

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• The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle every moment of your existence. Nature beckons you to be on her side. You couldn’t ask for a better boss. The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful. This is your century. Take it and run as if your life depends on it.

  Paul Hawken

  Running, Night, Sight

  Paul Hawken's Commencement Address at University of Portland in Portland, Oregon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

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• But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Museums, People

  "If I should have a daughter". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference even if we do not see the positive results of our efforts... We can never be too generous or too kind.

  Marc Bekoff

  Caring, Compassion, Differences

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• Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

  Michael Novak

  Christian, Judaism, Jew

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• The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in the life of the country ... That this many young people could assemble so peaceably and with such good humor in a mile-square area ... speaks volumes about their dedication to the ideal of respect for the dignity of the individual ... In a nation beset with a crescendo of violence, this is a vibrantly hopeful sign. If violence is infectious, so, happily, is nonviolence.

  Michael Lang

  Country, Art, Dedication

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• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  Fatos Nano

  Bosnia, Forget, Happened

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• Hope is man's inner effort.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Men, Effort

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.399, Aum Publications

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• When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Country, Moving, Rights

  "Ask What You Can Do For Your Country" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

  Mindy Kaling

  Hurt, Character, Work Out

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• What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.

  Brad Henry

  Family Love, Compassion, Promise

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• In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

  Hafez

  Faces, Bones, Trouble

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• I'm not hopeful about America, and I'm not hopeful about the world, no. Life goes on and, for those of us who are lucky, there's a great deal to enjoy in it. But will things get better for most people? I don't know. I don't see the evidence.

  Teju Cole

  America, People, Get Better

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them, to face them directly, not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility.

  William F. Lynch

  Creative, Despair, Able

  William F. Lynch (1974). “Images of Hope: Imagination as Healer of the Hopeless”

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• Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Valiant, Faculty

  Michel de Montaigne (1934). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne ...”

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• It is important for me to share my experiences in order to create strength and hope for others. No matter how far down you go, it is never too late to come back.

  Theoren Fleury

  Order, Important, Matter

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