I had hoped to hear the President tonight tell the Congress and the American people exactly how he plans to tackle some of the important issues facing this country, unfortunately I did not.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living... view

By: Thabo Mbeki

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Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it... view

By: Robert Urich

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For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all... view

By: Graham Nelson

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Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it... view

By: Craig Bruce

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Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale... view

By: Will Durst

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I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow... view

By: Howard Nemerov

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In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day... view

By: Mangosuthu Buthelezi

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The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger... view

By: Mary Wollstonecraft

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I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons... view

By: Anthony Hopkins

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Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light... view

By: Joyce Carol Oates

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Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure... view

By: Paul de Man

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She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher Start Value vault, which I'll be competing at Trials and, hopefully, the Olympics... view

By: Carly Patterson

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