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• Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Human Nature, Occasions, Reasoning

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2007). “The Federalist Papers”, p.257, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.

  Winston Churchill

  Mistake, Dwelling, People

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Religious, Fiction, May

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• That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

  Jesse Ball

  Would Be, Certainty, Refuse

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Jul 29, 2013

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• You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it.  In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.

  Jacque Fresco

  Hope, Atheist, Good Life

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• Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

  Stephen Grosz

  Grief, Closure

  Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.210, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We offer such false hopes to people that every medical problem can be fixed even when you're starting to deal with an 80- or a 90-year-old body that is breaking down in multiple ways and doesn't have that resilience. And so it doesn't surprise me that someone who is completely unprepared for death may say, "Doc, do everything."

  Katy Butler

  Medical Problems, Years, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Pain, Medicine, Injury

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• But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a gap between who we are and who we should be, and our parents, molested by regret, conceive us under the false hope that we will be better than them, and everything they do, every hug and blow, only makes certain that we never will be.

  Chris Adrian

  Regret, Blow, Moon

  Chris Adrian (2012). “The Children's Hospital”, p.241, Granta Books

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• In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

  Les Claypool

  Funny, Hope, Crazy

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

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• False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.

  Rob Payne

  Bread, Bread And Butter, Existence

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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• The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.

  Tim Scott

  Thinking, Government, Matter

  "Should government play a role in addressing root causes of Baltimore’s upheaval?". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2015.

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• Can't we just pursue our lives With our children and our wives Till that happy day arrives How do you ignore All the witches All the curses All the wolves, all the lies The false hopes, the goodbyes . . .

  Stephen Sondheim

  Life, Goodbye, Children

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• I like cinnamon rolls, but I don't always have time to make a pan. That's why I wish they would sell cinnamon roll incense. After all I'd rather light a stick and have my roommate wake up with false hopes.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Light

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• Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

  Learned Hand

  Love, Freedom, Hate

  "The Spirit of Liberty" (speech), New York, N.Y., 21 May 1944

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• To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Faith, Discipline, Darkness

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• Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.

  Laini Taylor

  Magic, Wish

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.94, Hachette UK

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• Pope John XXIII was an amoeba of goodness in a sea of waste, mistakenly believing that the Holy See could or would really change in any fundamental way.He was a tragic figure, for he raised a false hope, cast a brief ray of light that was snuffed out when he died.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Believe, Sea, Light

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• [Donald] Trump: he'd probably declare in Hiroshima that he'd nuke half of Asia if it would help the West to retain its control over the world. At least one would not harbor any false hopes.

  Andre Vltchek

  Half, World, Nukes

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Evermore the Law must prepare the way for the gospel. To overlook this in instructing souls is almost certain to result in false hope, the introduction of a false standard of Christian experience, and to fill the Church with false converts... Time will make this plain.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Law, Soul

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• In restating this basic Christian doctrine, Benedict argues that it is not only for Christians alone. Others may not share the Christian faith in God, but the Christian proclamation that hope comes from within the person- in the realm of faith and conscience - is for them too. It offers an important protection against stifling and occasionally brutal social systems built on false hopes that come from outside the person, founded on political idealogies, economic models and social theories.

  Raymond J. de Souza

  Christian, Hope, Economic Models

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• We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant. We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

  Barack Obama

  Reality, Offering, Voice

  Barack Obama’s New Hampshire Primary Speech, www.nytimes.com. January 08, 2008.

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• Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick fix, instant gratification, the dreamworld, and escape from all pain and boredom. All of this is part of what addicts believe and what we hope for when we reach for our particular substance.... Addiction begins with the hope that something "out there" can instantly fill up the emptiness inside. Advertising is all about this false hope.

  Jean Kilbourne

  Pain, Believe, Boredom

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• What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was one of them.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Beautiful, Giving, Staring

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.140, Ballantine Books

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• Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.

  Kim Campbell

  Real, Want, Raised

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