It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with hi

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world. – George Dennison Prentice

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As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours. – LL Cool J

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. – Edmund Burke

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Do you force your kids to pay attention to whats going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud. – Eddie Vedder

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I hope girls read what I say in interviews – they should just be themselves. – Taylor Momsen

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I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. – B. R. Ambedkar

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. – Jane Austen

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. – Albert Camus

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