"Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day."

Duras, Marguerite on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope."

Johnson, John on hope
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"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

Kingsolver, Barbara on hope
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"The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came."

Kingsley, Charles on hope
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hope
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"Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back."

Henley, Don on hope
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"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."

Fuller, Thomas on hope
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"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on hope
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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

Cohen, Leonard on hope
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"Hope is the parent of faith."

Bartol, Cyrus A. on hope
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"Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on hope
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"Hope is the dream of a waking man."

Aristotle on hope
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on hope
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"Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us."

Miller, Henry on taboos
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