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• QOTD: "It's not the despair... I can stand the despair. It's the hope.
• Where none admire, 't is useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle.
  -- Lord Lyttleton (1709-1773) -- Soliloquy on a Beauty in the Country...
• Wish and hope succeed in discerning signs of paranormality where reason and careful scientific procedure fail.
  -- James E. Alcock, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12...
• An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. -- E. P. Whipple
• A law can give security--but the hope of a date is love.
• I don't know where we come from, Don't know where we're going to, And if all this should have a reason, We would be the last to know.
  So let's just hope there is a promised land, And until then, ....
• Homeless men are also without love and hope of finding love.
• I can endure my own despair but not another's hope. -- William Walsh, Song
• Farewell! For in that word, that fatal word,--howe'er We promise, hope, believe,--there breathes despair.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- The Corsair, Canto i, Stanza 15...