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• Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There was no way to tell. It was better to stay on the steading and mind the cows and be content with such days as are left to one and cease to wonder about life everlasting.

  Jane Smiley

  Life, Men, Mind

  Jane Smiley (2017). “The Greenlanders”, p.487, Pan Macmillan

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• I have to remember the good people in the world outnumber the bad people. I think when you start to feel frustrated or you have no hope left in humanity or whatever, you've got to just remember that there are people out there who are working incredibly hard to get a positive message across.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Thinking, People, Humanity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to protect the rights of people who won't be born for another hundred years and may not be worth the trouble anyway, and we try to take care of our sick, though we all suffer from a disease for which there is no cure and no hope for one. We will not last and we know we will not - and still we write, carve, build, paint and plant to last. We are, it seems to me, very, very brave.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Writing, Rights, Years

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• I've always said there's no hope without endeavor. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams but in order to that we do need to have friends. We need those who believe in us. Friends are those who believe in us and who want to help us whatever it is that we are trying to achieve.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Dream, Hope, Believe

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Acceptance Speech in Strasbourg, October 22, 2013.

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• If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.

  Rachel Joyce

  Accepting, Knows, Ifs

  Rachel Joyce (2012). “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry”, p.292, Random House

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• Hope is life's greatest treasure. If you have no hope, create some!

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Greatest Treasure, Treasure, Ifs

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• The atheist has no hope.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Atheist, Atheism

  James Freeman Clarke (1870). “Steps of Belief: Or, Rational Christianity Maintained Against Atheism, Free Religion, and Romanism”, p.63

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• The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Government, People, Littles

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.1040, Best Books on

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• The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the Future is, in all things, our friend. In the Past is no hope; The Future is both hope and fruition. The Past is the text-book of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Past, Tyrants

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1541, Delphi Classics

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• All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.

  Aldous Huxley

  Two, Desire, Tasks

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.157, Transaction Publishers

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• No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.

  John Cleese

  Gone, Problem, Planets

  "How John Cleese got his accidental start in comedy". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. January 19, 2015.

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• I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.

  Bernie Siegel

  Giving Up, Doctors, People

  Dr. Bernie Siegel (2009). “365 Prescriptions for the Soul: Daily Messages of Inspiration, Hope, and Love”, p.28, New World Library

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• Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

  John F. Kennedy

  Determination, Mean, Self

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspiration, Slave Labor, Slavery

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.160, Fordham Univ Press

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• Action is hope. There is no hope without action.

  Ray Bradbury

  Action

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.258, Melville House

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• Angelus: Now that's everything, huh? No weapons... No friends...No hope. Take all that away... and what's left? Buffy: Me.

  Joss Whedon

  Vampire, No Friends, Weapons

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• Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

  Helen Keller

  Bad Ass, Soul, Darkness

  Helen Keller (2013). “Optimism: An Essay”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Relationship, Joy, Problem

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• Never say there’s no hope. Hope disappears only when you say there’s no hope.

  Asmaa Mahfouz

  Disappear

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• If we are lending money that ostensibly we don't have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don't exist, I might suggest that we've gone around the bend a little bit.

  Mike Rowe

  Jobs, Kids, Order

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• There was no hope for any kind of big opportunity. I'm not saying it was hopeless. The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.

  Edward Ruscha

  Art, Opportunity, Rare Occasion

  "Ed Ruscha: 'There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. Seotember 11, 2010.

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• If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.

  James Wolfensohn

  Dream, Jobs, Violence

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• For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Doe, Firsts

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• I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.

  Patch Adams

  Thinking, Compassion, Government

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