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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. – Eric Hoffer

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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented. – Eric Hoffer

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Intolerance is the Do Not Touch sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness. – Eric Hoffer

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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. – Anne Lamott

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Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that. – Daniel Day-Lewis

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Im really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that Ive had with the fans has been fantastic. – Frank Lampard

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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. – Annie Leibovitz

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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. – Omar Khayyam

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. – Mark Twain

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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