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"I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they choose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"When I think back on all the blessings I have been given in my life, I can't think of a single one, unless you count that rattlesnake that granted me all those wishes."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes."	Thomas Hardy
"Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity..."	Václav Havel
"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."	Václav Havel
"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."	Václav Havel
"To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue."	William Hazlitt
"If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators."	William Hazlitt
"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."	Lillian Hellman
"I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts."	Patrick Henry
"To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish."	Heraclitus
"Hope is the poor man's bread."	George Herbert
"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even ... without any hope of doing it well."	Oliver Herford
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings."	Carter Hodding
"To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old."	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Beware how you take away hope from any human being."	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon."	Horace
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men."	Zora Neale Hurston
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Alighieri Dante	Allan K. Chalmers	Anais Nin
Anna Mary Robertson Moses	Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh	Ann Landers
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov	Aristotle	Arnold H. Glasgow
Author Unknown	Barbara Bush	Benjamin Franklin
Bertrand Russell	Bible	Bill Cosby
B. A. Billingsly	Carl Gustav Jung	Carter Hodding
Charles Caleb Colton	Charles Dickens	Charles Augustus Lindbergh
Charles Franklin Kettering	Clive Staples Lewis	Confucius
Corazón Cojuangco Aquino	Curtis Grant	Daniel Hudson Burnham
Dean Koontz	Demosthenes	Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dr. Samuel Johnson	Dr. Thomas Fuller	Dwight David Eisenhower
Earl Nightingale	Edward Kennedy	Edward Morgan Forster
Ed Lindeman	Elaine Agather	Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson	Emil Brunner	Epictetus
Epicurus	Erica Mann Jong	Erich Fromm
Erma Louise Bombeck	Ernest Miller Hemingway	Fawn M. Brodie
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky	Florence Nightingale	Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	F(rancis) Scott	Gaius Julius Caesar
George Eliot	George Frederick Handel	George Herbert
George Herbert Walker Bush	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Giordano Bruno	Gordon William Allport	Greenday
Guy Albert Lombardo	Hannah Nixon	Harriet Du Autermont
Hebrews 11:1-2 Bible	Henry Ford	Heraclitus
Hodding Carter	Horace	Häfiz
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb	Isaac Asimov	Ivan Illich
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacques Cousteau	Javan
Jean Kerr	Jerry Coleman	Jesse Louis Jackson
Joe Moore	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Johathan Edwards
John Anthony Ciardi	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Gay
John Johnson	John Perry Barlow	John Quincy Adams
Joseph Addison	Joseph Conrad	Joseph Joubert
Josh Billings	Juvenal	J. Russel Lynes
Kahlil Gibran	Kalidasa	Karen Lamb
Katherine Mansfield	Ken Lancaster	Lady Nancy Astor
Laertius Diogenes	Learned Hand	Lillian Hellman
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Madeleine L'Engle	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Martin Luther	Mary Catherine Bateson	Mignon McLaughlin
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Napolean Bonaparte	Napoleon I
Niccolo Machiavelli	Nicholas Boileau	Nigel Kneale
Noel Coward	Norman Cousins	Ogden Nash
Oliver Goldsmith	Oliver Herford	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	Oriana Fallaci	Orison Swett Marden
Patrice Gifford	Patrick Henry	Peter F(erdinand) Drucker
Pierre Corneille	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Ralph Kiner
Reinhold Niebuhr	Richard Dawkins	Richard David Bach
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert	Robert Charles Benchley
Robert Edward Lee	Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Green Ingersoll
Rose Elizabeth Bird	Saint Augustine	Adela Rogers St. Johns
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sextus Julius Frontinus	Sid Ceaser
Sigmund Freud	Sir Francis Bacon	Sir Isaiah Berlin
Sir James Matthew Barrie	Sir John Lubbock	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Susanna Moodie	Swedish Carol	Søren Aaby Kierkegaard
Thomas Hardy	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Arnold
Thomas Edward Bodett	Thomas Mann	Thomas à Kempis
Tom Clancy	Tryon Edwards	Ursala Lequin
Ursula K. LeGuin	Vartan Gregorian	Victor Hugo
Václav Havel	Walter Benjamin	Walter Savage Landor
Wendell Berry	Wilfred Wilson Gibson	William Hazlitt
William Cowper	William James "Will" Durant	William Least Heat Moon
William S. Gilbert	Woody Allen	Wystan Hugh Auden
Zora Neale Hurston	Æschylus