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«It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Hope,
Illusion,
Mankind
| Keywords:
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«In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.»
«I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death»
Author: Robert Fulghum
| About:
Belief,
Death and dying,
Dreams,
Experience,
Facts,
Grief,
History,
Hope,
Imagination,
Knowledge,
Laughter,
Love,
Myths
| Keywords:
cure, curing, facts, grief, history, imagination, laughter, myth, potent, powerful, stronger, The Cure, the Triumphs, triumphed, triumphing, triumphs
«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...»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| About:
Certainty,
Doubt,
Hope,
Life
| Keywords:
absurdity, certainties, experiencing, first moment, given birth, hopelessness, nourishes, perhaps, profound, sense experience, soil, soiled, soiling, soils
«In valor there is hope.»
«It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.»
Author: Robert Southey
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Ambition,
Hope
| Keywords:
aspirations, quenched, sparks
«I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.»
«It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit»
«I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Future, and some day, when my generation retires, they will have to pay us trillions of dollars in social security»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Generations,
Hope,
Youth
| Keywords:
a trillion, dollars, My Generation, retires, Social Security, trillion, trillions
«It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.»
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