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The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supportin...

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In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is tr...

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There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both - taken and taken and ...

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When God “saves” people in this life, by working through His Spirit to bring them to faith, and by l...

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What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the...

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N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general bel...

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N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. Th...

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It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad,...

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He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not ...

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Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven Gables

There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each...

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No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, ...

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And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

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Neil GaimanFables and Reflections

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to he...

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Neil GaimanFragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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Neil GaimanPreludes & Nocturnes

CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, w...

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CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, w...

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I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, i...

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Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hope...

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May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of bei...

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Nelson MandelaLong Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

You should read something else."Why would he have done that to him?"I don't know," she said.Do you e...

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All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us ...

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She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as r...

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How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?

It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine h...

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It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

Yes, I decided, a man can truly change. The events of the past year have taught me much about myself...

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I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

Destroying hope is a critically important project. And when it is achieved, formal democracy is allo...

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Noam ChomskyHegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I'...

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The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the p...

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Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every dete...

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Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the w...

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Norman MailerThe Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe t...

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Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable He...

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Hope like the gleaming taper's light adorns and cheers our way And still as darker grows the nig...

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In all my wanderings through this world of care,In all my griefs -- and God has given my share --I s...

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Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the nig...

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To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, esc...

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Beware how you take away hope from another human being

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be t...

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Orhan PamukThe Museum of Innocence

We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.

Because these fools always look up for power. People above you, they never want to share power with ...

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something was dead in each of us,and what was dead was hope.

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Oscar WildeThe Ballad Of Reading Gaol

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and ...

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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

Y por que el sol es tan mal amigodel caminante en el desierto?Y por que el sol es tan simpaticoen el...

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Donde termina el arco iris,en tu alma o en el horizonte?Where does the rainbow end,in your soul or o...

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Pablo NerudaThe Book of Questions

Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignida...

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Pablo NerudaToward the Splendid City: Nobel Lecture

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked ...

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It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to o...

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Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

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Paul FussellThe Great War and Modern Memory

Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think ...

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Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think ...

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Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think ...

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Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think ...

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Hope is a song in a weary throat.

Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek...

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Then I realize that words like "optimism" and "hope" which appear in all those self-help books that ...

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Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, si...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the ...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we...

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If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Devil and Miss Prym

All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Th...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Witch Of Portobello

And he always checks that he carries three things with him: faith, hope, and love.

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Paulo CoelhoWarrior of the Light

As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom ...

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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed i...

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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the n...

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When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

We must have hope or starve to death.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfe...

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If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.

Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.

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Philip PullmanThe Golden Compass

She has committed great sins, but they've been forgiven, and that's why she loves so deeply.

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Philip PullmanThe Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you,...

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God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.

To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. Th...

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Faith, hope and charity go together. Hope is practised through the virtue of patience, which continu...

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If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.

It is lucky that it is not windy today. Strange, how in some way one always has the impression of be...

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Primo LeviSurvival in Auschwitz

Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innume...

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There are no shadows in the Underdark. There is no room for imagination in the Underdark. It is a pl...

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Look: the trees exist; the houseswe dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only wepass by it all, like a ...

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And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have ...

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Rainer Maria RilkeLetters of Rainer Maria Rilke

So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known,...

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And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze an...

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Rainer Maria RilkeThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

a delegate shout out from the floor: “Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They...

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And all Negroes at some period of their lives there is that yearning for a sense of group unity that...

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If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world wil...

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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.