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"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."	Giordano Bruno
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.... Make big plans... aim high in hope and work."	Daniel Hudson Burnham
"Dear brightest star o'er Bethlehem, O let your precious light shine in with hope and peace toward men in every home tonight."	Swedish Carol
"He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist."	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."	Joseph Conrad
"There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next."	Johathan Edwards
"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them."	George Eliot
"The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life."	Epictetus
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring which you have not; but remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for."	Epicurus
"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity."	Dr. Thomas Fuller
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes."	Kahlil Gibran
"It is always wise to stop wishing for things long enough to enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering."	Patrice Gifford
"Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them."	Curtis Grant
"Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind."	Häfiz
"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it..."	Learned Hand
"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes."	Thomas Hardy
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Adel Bestavros	Aesop	Alan Marshall Beck
Albert Einstein	Aldous Leonard Huxley	Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Alighieri Dante	Allan K. Chalmers	Anais Nin
Anna Mary Robertson Moses	Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh	Ann Landers
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov	Aristotle	Arnold H. Glasgow
Barbara Bush	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 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
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
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