"Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -The water below is as dark as the grave,And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat -It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat."

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"Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -The water below is as dark as the grave,And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat -It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat."

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"Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us."

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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

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"What a thrilling future for those of us who know that some day we will populate the kingdom of God."

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"There is not only the present, but there is a future waiting for us as well."

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"There will come a day when your vision will be fulfilled."

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"This should be the motto of every follower of Jesus Christ. Never stop praying no matter now dark and hopeless it may seem."

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"Vision is success in the future."

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"History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty from the ashes of world chaos. A new world is being born. A new social order will emerge when Christ comes back. A fabulous future is on the way."

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"Don't let the bastards grind you down."

Inspirational

"Also I could hear Amanda's voice: Why are you being so weak? Love's never a fair trade. So Jimmy's tired of you, so what, there's guys all over the place like germs, and you can pick them like flowers and toss them away when they're wilted. But you have to act like you're having a spectacular time and every day's a party."

Relationship

"They were wrong about the sun.It does not go down into the underworld at night.The sun leaves merelyand the underworld emerges.It can happen at any moment.It can happen in the morning,you in the kitchen going throughyour mild routines.Plate, cup, knife.All at once there's no blue, no green,no warning."

Philosophy

"Everything I'd been longing to get away from, true, but not through destruction. I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will."

Home

"Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done."

Consequence

"That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies."

Storytelling

"All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel."

Symbolism

"They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills."

Satire

"Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf."

Exposure

"How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all."

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