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  • Conrad Black on hope

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    “A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.” -Conrad Black

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  • Felix Adler on hope

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    “If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.” -Felix Adler

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  • John Millington Synge on hope

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    “The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.” -John Millington Synge

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  • Enya on hope

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    “The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.” -Enya

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  • Spalding Gray on hope

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    “I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that’s where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.” -Spalding Gray

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  • Todd Barry on hope

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    “I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.” -Todd Barry

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  • Celine Dion on hope

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    “There’s no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It’s beautiful, I call that beauty.” -Celine Dion

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  • F. H. Bradley on hope

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    “Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.” -F. H. Bradley

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  • Mary Astell on hope

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    “We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, ’tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform’d what is the true Way to Happiness.” -Mary Astell

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  • Terry Eagleton on hope

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    “Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is ‘The Book of British Birds,’ and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.” -Terry Eagleton

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  • George Henry Lewes on hope

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    “Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.” -George Henry Lewes

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  • Don Rickles on hope

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    “To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.” -Don Rickles

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  • Tadao Ando on hope

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    “You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.” -Tadao Ando

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  • Thomas Arnold on hope

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    “Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.” -Thomas Arnold

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  • Hu Shih on hope

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    “On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.” -Hu Shih

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  • Nathaniel Branden on hope

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    “In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.” -Nathaniel Branden

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  • Talcott Parsons on hope

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    “The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life – involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.” -Talcott Parsons

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  • W. Edwards Deming on hope

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    “Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.” -W. Edwards Deming

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  • Orville Wright on hope

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    “With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.” -Orville Wright

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  • Ethel Watts Mumford on hope

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    “Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.” -Ethel Watts Mumford

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  • Ellsworth Huntington on hope

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    “No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.” -Ellsworth Huntington

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  • Thomas Reid on hope

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    “There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.” -Thomas Reid

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  • John Cheever on hope

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    “Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.” -John Cheever

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  • Derek Jacobi on hope

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    “Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people’s knowledge of those characters.” -Derek Jacobi

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  • Emily Blunt on hope

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    “I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria’s early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.” -Emily Blunt

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