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"Good poems do a lot of things at once. Often, by doing so, they encourage us to acknowledge mixed and incompatible feelings. Good poems, like good works of history, resist monocausal explanations for anything. There's not one reason why I am angry or excited or hopeful, when I feel those things. And there's not one reason why President Obama won two elections. And there's not one reason why Donald Trump won the most recent presidential election."

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Justice, Jurist, Author
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"What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

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Keri Russell Actress
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"I wouldn't say that my experience making it [the Waitress] was necessarily uplifting, but watching it with an audience, I was surprised at how hopeful it was at the end."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"I remain hopeful that science, innovation and kindness will come to the fore as things become more and more tense in parts of the world. I think what you are seeing in the world right now is kind of a leveling or an attempt to level the playing field."

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Jonathon Keats Artist, Philosopher
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"I don't think that I am hopeful because I have some data that you don't, that I am going to share with you and going to convince you on that basis."

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