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• Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

  Roger Waters

  Envy

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• Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Thinking, Perspective, Kind

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• We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

  Otto Frank

  Children, Wife, Stories

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• The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Errors, Age, Looks

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• As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

  T. E. Brown

  Patience, Mother, Sweet

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• Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces. As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us. In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won't dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.

  Alan Cooper

  Running, Powerful, Awkward

  Alan Cooper (1999). “The Inmates are Running the Asylum”, Sams Publishing

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• Suddenly it makes sense again. In no haze of mindfulness, staring down at this snow-covered quilt of America, I am the stars exploding. Voice shot down to hell, half sick, half recovered, alive and well and ready. The unknown for now will remain as such and in this moment that feeling is not one of suspension. It is the hopeful unknown. Reaching into the future could only be good now as the past is wrapping itself in ribbons and pleasant packing paper, rarely to be revisited.

  Andrew McMahon

  Stars, Quilts, Past

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• See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the bod.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Stress, Recovery, Law Of Attraction

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• My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

  John Green

  Responsibility, Trying, Stories

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• Great leaders inspire. They maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don't follow discouraged leaders. They follow those who persist with hope.

  Rick Warren

  Attitude, People, Leader

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• Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced

  Donna Karan

  Creativity, Haiti, There Is Hope

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• In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke--could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn, might produce more hopeful and well-disciplined kids.

  David Von Drehle

  Book, Kids, Cutting

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• To stand together against homophobic, sexist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic and racist agendas. I’m an optimist and I can’t help but feel hopeful about the future of film - especially looking at all the beautiful people in this room. Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.’ I would like to encourage everyone in this room to please speak up.

  Jessica Chastain

  Beautiful, Kings, People

  "Watch Jessica Chastain’s Impassioned Speech For Diversity In Hollywood" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2015.

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• I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Transition, Different

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• W. Kamau Bell is in the vanguard of a new era of American comedy for an unsettling, troubling, and strangely hopeful time. Firmly in the fearless tradition of Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, & Chris Rock. Comedy as common sense purged of the absurd hypocrisy that is Our America.

  Vernon Reid

  America, Rocks, Hypocrisy

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• All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

  Lucy Grealy

  Confusing, World, Narrative

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• The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.

  Julie Mehretu

  Political, Historical, Pessimistic

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• Brooke Berman's voice is utterly distinct, and her book, detailing her nomadic artist's journey toward both a successful playwriting career and a home of her own, through 20 years of cramped sublets, high-rise palaces, writer's colonies, and boyfriend's vans, is a hilarious, hopeful, and penetrating must-read.

  Maria Dahvana Headley

  Book, Home, Successful

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• We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles of misconceptions as heavy as the great sacks upon their backs these simple, rough-handed people are the ancestors of our descendants, the fathers and mothers of our children.

  Walter Weyl

  Mother, Children, Confused

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• I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

  Fay Vincent

  Optimistic, Being Optimistic, I Can

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• Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

  Oliver Sacks

  Book, Brain, Portraits

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• But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Struggle, Interest

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.16, Random House

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• So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories at times. But beautiful things. Graceful things. Hopeful things can sometimes appear in dark places.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Life, Beautiful, Dark

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• The beckoning Hands Of God's hopeful Smile Will, without fail, one day greet The fruitful cries Of man's prayerful heart.

  Sri Chinmoy

  God, Heart, Men

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• After an exhilarating whitewater ride through America's love-hate relationship with its rivers, Daniel McCool leaves us inspired and hopeful for a happy ending.

  Michael Brune

  Hate, Rivers, America

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