"In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse."
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"Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure."
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"None wise dares hopeless venture."
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"When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about."
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"There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned about by ordinary human beings and their natural capacity for love of the deepest sort."
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"Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business."
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"Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end."
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"I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet."
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"I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast."
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"The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come."
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"No fight is hopeless till it has been fought."
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"Despite how difficult and hopeless it was at times, my experiences have shaped me for the better in many ways. It ultimately taught me empathy and invaluable lessons only learned through adversity."
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"ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels."
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"And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business."
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"the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year."
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