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Studs Terkel

"I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic."

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"I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic."

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"If there is no dream, there will be no hope. If there is no hope there will be no life."

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"Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be."

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"The lightest weight anyone can carry on life's journey is hope."

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"Be brave enough to listen to your heart, be bold enough to hope for the best."

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"Love without hope will not survive.Love without faith changes nothing.Love gives power to hope and faith."

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"If you are still alive, your blessings are far from being over. Keep aiming higher and don't allow anyone or anything to steal your faith and hope."

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Donna Grant

"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings."

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"The darkest moments of the night herald the imminent advent of a radiant sun."

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"A seed today is a forest tomorrow."

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"I've never seen such a hunger in people for spiritual things . . .People realize the past is gone, the future is uncertain, and the present seems to be hopeless. As a result, many [in Moscow] were open to God."

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"We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world."
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"People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations."
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"I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be."
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"If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have."
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"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."
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"That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting."
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"I want a language that speaks the truth."
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"You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist."
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"I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information."
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