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• I've always been very hopeful but I also know that as long as you've got a good work ethic, almost anything is achievable and I learned that in the armed forces.

  Simon Weston

  Long, Work Ethic, Ethics

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Religious, Writing, Quality

  Interview with Simon&Schuster, www.simonandschuster.co.uk.

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• Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans for and believes and trusts in a future, whether in the short or the longer term.

  Susan Hill

  Children, Believe, Optimistic

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• The FBI continues to be a broken, anachronistic organization, but state and local law enforcement officials are much more attuned to the kind of threat we're facing. I think that's very hopeful, but it's a long-term process.

  Michael Scheuer

  Thinking, Law, Organization

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.

  Hugh Sidey

  Running, Eye, Men

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• The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

  Chaka Fattah

  Optimistic

  "CNN Crossfire" with James Carville and Robert Novak, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2005.

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• Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.

  William H. Hastie

  Planning, Social, Future Plans

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• The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always greatly hopeful belief that somewhere and some time it would wash up on land on heartland perhaps.

  Edward Hirsch

  Land, Holocaust, Bottles

  "How to Read a Poem". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• It's very common to say that Star Wars in the late '70s, that was kind of perfect for Cold War culture and the aftermath of Vietnam in the '60s to have an upbeat, hopeful, cartoonish tale of a hero's journey. I think those explanations are easy to offer and almost always wrong.

  Cass Sunstein

  Stars, War, Hero

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• I will say that I appreciate Hillary Clinton's awareness and passion for women. I think she is overqualified in the sense that she's been in the White House, so she knows the drill. I am hopeful that she will continue to support minorities and create better opportunities.

  Nia Long

  Passion, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.

  Jayni Chase

  Mad, Being Sad, Hopeless

  "Jayni Chase: Founder, Center for Environmental Education Interview: Chip Comins". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The goal is to be free and hopeful in the music. Because that's really the only intention you need. From there, every natural and powerful intention and feeling will, on its own, slide right out of you - out of your spirit.

  Alex Ebert

  Powerful, Goal, Feelings

  "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• On conflicts, generally speaking, the world is a hell of a lot better to live in today than it was thirty years ago, despite what's going on in Syria. There are definitely hopeful signs that the world is moving, decade by decade, in the right direction.

  Richard Branson

  Moving, Years, World

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being. Some recent studies show that people who are taught to forgive become 'less angry, more hopeful, less depressed, less anxious and less stressed,' which leads to greater physical well-being. Another of these studies concludes 'that forgiveness ... is a liberating gift [that] people can give to themselves.'

  James E. Faust

  Hurt, Self Esteem, Heart

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• College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

  Jerry Kramer

  Sweet, College, Atmosphere

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• I'm not personally fearful, but I look out, and there are a number of things that concern me, and I'm hopeful that we can overcome them.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Numbers, Overcoming, Looks

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I'm not really one of these people who's been known for particularly hopeful sentiments.

  El-P

  People, Sentiments, Known

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm lost, but I'm hopeful.

  Alanis Morissette

  Philosophy, Lost

  Song: One Hand In My Pocket, Album: Jagged Little Pill, 1995

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• The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change.

  David Suzuki

  Spiritual, Movement, Participation

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• Be hopeful at all times and walk in faith, but above all seek love an walk in it. God is love, and when we walk in love we show Him to those we come in contact with.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• We were trying to show that you should be hopeful, you should be optimistic, but you have to be consistent and persistent, because it's not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year. It's the struggle of a lifetime. And so you're going to have to put in 40 or 50 years to reach that high-water mark.

  Andrew Aydin

  Struggle, Optimistic, Years

  "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• I wouldn't say that my experience making it [the Waitress] was necessarily uplifting, but watching it with an audience, I was surprised at how hopeful it was at the end.

  Keri Russell

  Uplifting, Waitress, Ends

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

  James Keller

  Yield, Doe, Cherish

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• To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

  Sarah Kane

  Beautiful, Feelings, Despair

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• That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Country, Drama, Europe

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