Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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You hope people are going to be listening to you after youre gone. And they like you better after youre gone. – Tom Waits

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Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions. – Simon Mainwaring

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I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the films abrasive and wrongfoots people then, yknow, thats great. But I hope it involves an audience. – Paul Thomas Anderson

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Lord save us all from… a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. – Mark Twain

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