More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly
- Woody Allen
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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair
- Thomas Hobbes
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I must lose myself in action,
lest I wither in despair
- Lord Tennyson
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I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse
are creatures of despair
- Joseph Conrad
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Despair is vinegar
from the wine of hope
- Austin O'Malley
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The mass of men lead lives
of quiet desperation
- Henry David Thoreau
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