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• There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes.

  John Logie Baird

  Mean, Rays, Television

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• With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Roots, Meditation

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• There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Hope, Men, Have A Great Day

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• Tears are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be watered. But we must not sorrow as those that have no hope; for we have a good hope through grace both concerning them and concerning ourselves.

  Matthew Henry

  Grace, Sorrow, Tears

  Matthew Henry (2016). “Bible Commentary - Genesis”, p.501, Bible Study Books

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• The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.

  Rod Parsley

  Laughter, Church, Looks

  Rod Parsley (2009). “Culturally Incorrect: How Clashing Worldviews Affect Your Future”, p.29, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Messages, Poor, Possibility

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• People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Law, People, Enemy

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• The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help they have no hope.

  Russell Brand

  Drinking, Addiction, Alcohol

  "My life without drugs" by Russell Brand, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

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• My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Ideas, People, Giving

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• The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

  William Hazlitt

  Hope, Self Esteem, People

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• You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

  Nhat Hanh

  Years, Despair, Calm

  "Zen and the art of protecting the planet" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go down and take a stance, then there will be hope.

  Asmaa Mahfouz

  Long, Down And, Stance

  "Women of the revolution" by Fatma Naib, www.aljazeera.com. February 19, 2011.

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• Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Educational, Bridges

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• When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength in Michael Jackson.

  Nelson Mandela

  Needs, Bars, Finding Strength

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• To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.

  John Marshall

  Yield, Return, Compromise

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• God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. When you are so weak that you cannot do much more than cry, you coin diamonds with both your eyes. The sweetest prayers God ever hears are the groans and sighs of those who have no hope in anything but his love.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Prayer, Heart

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• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Hope, Selfish

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.7.

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• We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Death, Atheist, Philosophy

  "Freedom From The Known" by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1969.

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• In Christ's resurrection, therefore, the Christian man sees the earnest and pledge of his own resurrection; and by it he is enheartened as he lays away the bodies of those dear to him, not sorrowing "as the rest that have no hope," but with hearts swelling with glad anticipations of the day when they shall rise to meet their Lord. "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will He bring with Him.

  B. B. Warfield

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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• People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

  Edmund Burke

  Power, Government, Law

  Letter to Charles James Fox, 8 October 1777, in 'The Correspondence of Edmund Burke' vol. 3 (1961)

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• There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And no hope for the spread of freedom, democracy and human dignity unless we treat health as a basic human right.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Country, Real, Health

  Gro Harlem Brundtland's speech to the International Conference on Public Health in Bergen, Oslo, www.who.int. June 16, 2003.

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• Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

  Frontinus

  Long Ago, Follow Your Dreams, Development

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• When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

  Freeman Dyson

  Crazy, Innovation, Confusing

  Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.138, Pantheon

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• It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, Believe, Tasks

  "The spirit of Houston: the First National Women's Conference, Vol. 84". Book by Mim Kelber (p. 153), 1978.

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• There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Fall, Glasses, Sand

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