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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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  • Stephen Ambrose on hope

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    “The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.” -Stephen Ambrose

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  • Steven Seagal on hope

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    “The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.” -Steven Seagal

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  • Donna Shalala on hope

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    “You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That’s the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans’. We don’t simply skim the elite.” -Donna Shalala

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  • Tippi Hedren on hope

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    “So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.” -Tippi Hedren

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  • Brigham Young on hope

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    “There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.” -Brigham Young

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  • Thomas Berger on hope

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    “The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” -Thomas Berger

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  • Ralph Ellison on hope

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    “The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.” -Ralph Ellison

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  • Jeremy Bentham on hope

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    “The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.” -Jeremy Bentham

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  • Thomas B. Macaulay on hope

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    “To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.” -Thomas B. Macaulay

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  • Cat Deeley on hope

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    “You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you – that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have – talent, contacts, knowledge – and do something different.” -Cat Deeley

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  • Talib Kweli on hope

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    “You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.” -Talib Kweli

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  • Pearl Bailey on hope

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    “There’s a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.” -Pearl Bailey

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  • Henri Poincare on hope

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    “The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.” -Henri Poincare

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  • Henry Bolingbroke on hope

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    “The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody’s word about them.” -Henry Bolingbroke

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  • Harry Browne on hope

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    “Security… it’s simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you’re willing to deal with whatever happens.” -Harry Browne

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  • John Hawkes on hope

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    “It’s much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they’re ill-equipped to solve their problems.” -John Hawkes

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  • Tahar Ben Jelloun on hope

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    “The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.” -Tahar Ben Jelloun

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  • Georges Bernanos on hope

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    “Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.” -Georges Bernanos

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  • George Gurdjieff on hope

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    “A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.” -George Gurdjieff

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  • Juvenal on hope

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    “All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.” -Juvenal

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  • John Wycliffe on hope

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    “In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry and where a man possesses these, although the bis.” -John Wycliffe

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  • Nicki Minaj on hope

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    “My advice to women in general: Even if you’re doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want – and don’t allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.” -Nicki Minaj

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  • Anne Rice on hope

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    “Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.” -Anne Rice

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