"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

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"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

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"If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed."

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"I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions."

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"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."

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"Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance."

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"As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it."

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"Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

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"We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

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"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

Dale Carnegie, American Writer

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"Not without hope we suffer and we mourn."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

Martin Luther, German Leader

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"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"If you are going through hell, keep going."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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