"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid on Hope
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"Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work."

Sawyer, Charles on Hope
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"If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on Nations
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"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew."

Einstein, Albert on Race and Racism
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"Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking."

Barthes, Roland on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend."

Ward, Arch on Friends and Friendship
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"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn."

Borland, Hal on Hope
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"In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

Camus, Albert on Potential
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"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country."

Twain, Mark on Nations
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