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We use the word hope perhaps more often than any other word in the

We use the word hope perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: I hope its a nice day. Hopefully, youre doing well. So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so. – Studs Terkel

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With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, Studs, youre an optimist. I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because whats the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven. – Studs Terkel

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I think its realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: I despair. The worlds no good. Thats a perverse idealist. Its practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. Thats very realistic. – Studs Terkel

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Thats why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. Its like a tonic. – Studs Terkel

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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. – Abraham Lincoln

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What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, Ill either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better. – Laura Linney

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. – Orville Wright

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In the end, thats what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? – Barack Obama

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