"I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere."
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"I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me."
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"No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue."
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"But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others. On this subject they are gaining daily in the opinions of nations, and hopeful advances are making towards their re- establishment on an equal footing with the other colors of the human family."
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"I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young"
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"Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism."
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"Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn."
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"I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic."
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"We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope."
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"Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes."
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"I'm certainly dismayed by what I'm seeing now. There's a lot of ugliness of a kind I've never seen in my lifetime, or heard in my lifetime. But, look, I'm a romantic. I'm hopeful."
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"You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?"
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"People want to feel hopeful."
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"Hope is an essential constituent of human life."
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"In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful."
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"What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a moral decision to be hopeful."
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"This is a beautiful and hopeful time to be alive. We are at a turning point, and your contribution to the world is needed more than ever. All of your struggles, all the struggles of your ancestors, all the struggles of all life have led to this moment right now. You are the culmination of life's great yearning; you are the hope of the world."
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"In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me."
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"Hope discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot."
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"Hope regards problems, small or large, as opportunities."
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