“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 Ciardi
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“Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.”
— Benjamin Banneker
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“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”
— Aristotle Onassis
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“When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.”
— John Adams
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“For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.”
— James Buchan
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“I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.”
— George McGovern
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“Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.”
— Ron Fournier
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“At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.”
— Ivan Illich
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“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.”
— Thornton Wilder
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“When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.”
— John Dryden
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“The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.”
— Ron Suskind
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