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• All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Beautiful, Motivation, Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

  C. S. Lewis

  Farewell, Adventure, Men

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• As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Pain, Flower

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• Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.

  Jimmy Carter

  Prayer, Communicate, Clear

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith”, p.146, Three Rivers Press

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• The spiritual journey involves going beyond hope and fear, stepping into unknown territory, continually moving forward. The most important aspect of being on the spiritual path may be just to keep moving.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Moving, Journey

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• [Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspiration, Science, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.46, Booklassic

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• When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the window.

  M. L. Stedman

  Kids, Law, Parent

  M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

  Laozi

  Thinking, Self, Tao Te Ching

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• That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration; I mean a Future Life.

  Joseph Butler

  Mean, Foundation, Consideration

  Joseph Butler (1860). “Analogy of Religion”, p.90

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• When we have gone beyond the boundaries of hope and fear, we are able to work with whatever comes our way.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Gone, Able, Way

  Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.133, Harmony

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• Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

  Audre Lorde

  Rocks, Names, Giving

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.37, Crossing Press

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• ...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

  Paul Krugman

  Fear, Loss, Inspire

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• The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

  Walter Lippmann

  Book, People, Office

  1920 Liberty and the News,'What Modern Liberty Means'.

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• Where then shall hope and fear their objects find?

  John Ashbery

  Objects

  John Ashbery (2011). “The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems”, p.44, Wesleyan University Press

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• Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

  William Hazlitt

  Heaven, Care, Next

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.69

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• With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying train of Life, fly backward far and fast The milestones of the fathers, the landmarks of the past. But human hearts remain unchanged: the sorrow and the sin, The loves and hopes and fears of old, are to our own akin; And if, in tales our fathers told, the songs our mothers sung, Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Mother, Dream, Song

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier”, p.120, tredition

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• The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. She has been a symbol of India's age-long culture and civilization, ever changing, ever flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Song, Memories, Civilization

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarvepalli Gopal (1980). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an anthology”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Born, the Man assumes the name and image of humanity, and becomes in all things like unto other men who dwell upon the earth. Their hard lot becomes his, and his, in turn, becomes the lot of all who shall come after him. Drawn on inexorably by time, it is not given him to see the next rung on which his faltering foot shall fall. Bounded in knowledge, it is not given him to foretell what each succeeding hour, what each succeeding minute, shall have in store for him. In blind nescience, in an agony of foreboding, in a whirl of hopes and fears, he completes the cycle of an iron destiny.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Fall, Destiny, Men

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• Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.

  Archilochus

  Past, Order, Years

  Archilochos, “To His Soul”

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• Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing.

  James Blunt

  Reading, Mean, Media

  "My body and soul". www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

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• Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

  Horace

  Anxiety

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• The laws of war, that restrain the exercise of national rapine and murder, are founded on two principles of substantial interest: the knowledge of the permanent benefits which may be obtained by a moderate use of conquest, and a just apprehension lest the desolation which we inflict on the enemy's country may be retaliated on our own. But these considerations of hope and fear are almost unknown in the pastoral state of nations.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, War, Exercise

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.161

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• You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden. Dear Doctor Manette, I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Daughter, Heart

  charles dickens (1868). “a tale of two cities”, p.122

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• It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this life with all its high duties in abeyance to that which is to come, that she and the children she has trained have been so completely subjugated by priestcraft and superstition.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Religious, Children, Atheism

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1993). “The Woman's Bible”, p.22, UPNE

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• Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Religion, Useless

  Baruch Spinoza (2017). “A Theologico-Political Treatise”, Jovian Press

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