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"What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life."	Emil Brunner
"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
"At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago."	Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett
"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
"Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president' s spouse. I wish him well!"	Barbara Bush
"I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity - in all things, generosity."	George Herbert Walker Bush
"Men willingly believe what they wish."	Gaius Julius Caesar
"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
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings."	Hodding Carter
"A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!"	Sid Ceaser
"The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."	Allan K. Chalmers
"He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist."	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."	John Anthony Ciardi
"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion."	John Anthony Ciardi
"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"While there's life, there's hope."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed."	Tom Clancy
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Earl Nightingale	Edward Kennedy	Edward Morgan Forster
Ed Lindeman	Elaine Agather	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Emil Brunner	Epictetus	Epicurus
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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
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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
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Thomas Arnold	Thomas Edward Bodett	Thomas Mann
Thomas à Kempis	Tom Clancy	Tryon Edwards
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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
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