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"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"At the moment of death I hope to be surprised."	Ivan Illich
"Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route."	Robert Green Ingersoll
"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity."	Robert Green Ingersoll
"[Today's students] can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. ... If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude."	Jesse Louis Jackson
"I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone."	Javan
"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."	Thomas Jefferson
"I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy."	Thomas Jefferson
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."	Thomas Jefferson
"My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair."	Thomas Jefferson
"Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness -- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes, when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love."	Adela Rogers St. Johns
"Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope."	John Johnson
"I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war [in Vietnam] … then I would lose everything at home. My hopes … my dreams."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."	Erica Mann Jong
"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."	Joseph Joubert
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