But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
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With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.Studs Terkel
Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
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We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'
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I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
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American filmmakers ventured into Vietnam during the 1970s and 1980s with mixed results, but by the 1990s the baby boomers seemed increasingly eager to do an end run around their generation's war and all it represented, to embrace that of their fathers and grandfathers. Perhaps because, as an American veteran in the book 'The Good War' An Oral History of World War II, ... It was the last time that most Americans thought they were innocent and good, without qualifications.
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I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
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