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Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings typically involved prearranged surrenders to the FBI, in the hopes of earning lenient sentences.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
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No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
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Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 37 -
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
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Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.
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The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.
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The thing that every parent hopes for is that the baby's healthy, I'm healthy. No matter how you feel, that's the most important thing.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.
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