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  • Ellie Goulding on hope

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    “I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I’d be so happy.” -Ellie Goulding

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  • Jeremy Taylor on hope

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    “The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.” -Jeremy Taylor

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  • Erica Jong on hope

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    “There is still the feeling that women’s writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.” -Erica Jong

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  • Lewis Thomas on hope

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    “Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.” -Lewis Thomas

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  • Bela Lugosi on hope

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    “A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.” -Bela Lugosi

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  • Harvey Weinstein on hope

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    “As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.” -Harvey Weinstein

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  • William Glasser on hope

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    “As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.” -William Glasser

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  • J. J. Abrams on hope

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    “We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there’s almost a sense of entitlement to that.” -J. J. Abrams

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  • John Holt on hope

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    “Since we can’t know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.” -John Holt

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  • Daniel D. Palmer on hope

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    “The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.” -Daniel D. Palmer

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  • Lord Acton on hope

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    “The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making…

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  • Sally Ride on hope

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    “It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.” -Sally Ride

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  • Robert Millikan on hope

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    “Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.” -Robert Millikan

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  • Buffalo Bill on hope

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    “Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.” -Buffalo Bill

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  • Kelsey Grammer on hope

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    “The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.” -Kelsey Grammer

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  • Christopher Lasch on hope

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    “Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.” -Christopher Lasch

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  • David Suzuki on hope

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    “Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don’t always reflect or act on that knowledge.” -David Suzuki

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  • Roger Bacon on hope

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    “Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.” -Roger Bacon

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  • Henry Adams on hope

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    “Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.” -Henry Adams

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  • Sylvester Stallone on hope

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    “It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.” -Sylvester Stallone

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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez on hope

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    “Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft – not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.” -Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  • Arnold Bennett on hope

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    “There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.” -Arnold Bennett

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  • Katharine Graham on hope

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    “If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.” -Katharine Graham

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  • George McGovern on hope

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    “I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.” -George McGovern

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  • Benjamin Carson on hope

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    “If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don’t have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon…

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