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If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the world you can see and touch - the everyday world that is too easily dismissed as everyday - you see largeness, generosity, hope, change for the better. It's always small, but it's real. Richard Flanagan

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There are always moments of despair when you get close to jobs and lose them at the last second. It feels like getting punched in the stomach. You feel like, 'Why do I do this?' Then you go to bed, get up the next day and forget about it. Ricky Schroder

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'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness. Rob Sheffield

I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst. Robert Byrd

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair. Robert Greene

Despair Hates Sorrow Woe Waste Brings

Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and leading them to restrain spending further. The downturn deepens, and a vicious circle of despair takes hold. Robert J. Shiller

If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing it because you love it. Robert Stack

Love You Despair Thru Because Doing Keep Suffer

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness. Robin Gibb

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I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair. Ryan Murphy

Death Age Sadness Overwhelming Despair AIDS Terror Came

Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair. Saint Bernard

God You Heart Sadness Will Despair Otherwise Indeed Must More Glad Lead Remembrance Sin Also Sorrow Endless Dwell Should Preoccupation Harden Deeply Necessary

There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you step forward and start speaking about what you see and what you want to change, you can begin living in that hope instead of despair. Sonita Alizadeh

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Every new industry has exuberance in advance of reality. The techies get carried away. There is a period of despair. Then the pendulum swings the other way, and people see the long term potential. It's like when the Internet bubble crashed. Steve Jurvetson

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After watching my poor mother being sometimes neglected by my father, it was almost tattooed on my brain that I would never cause hardship or despair to a partner. Steven Berkoff

Sometimes Mother Cause Father Partner Despair Neglected Would Never Almost Brain Tattooed Being After Poor Hardship Watching

The writing of 'Topdog' was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. Suzan-Lori Parks

Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human. Ta-Nehisi Coates

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. Theodor W. Adorno

Life Vain Despair He His Dies Who Whole Lived

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope. Thich Nhat Hanh

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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. Thomas Jefferson

Hope Despair Dream Cheap Gloom Always Been Than Theory

When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration. Tibor Fischer

Think Films Despair Indefensible Hungarian More Duration

I can wax boringly about the role of comedy in mitigating pain. For so many comedians, comedy comes out of personal despair. I'm not a very despairing person myself, but I do fear despair and the death of loved ones. Tim Minchin

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