Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle is not likely to retain its promissory call to a new future. Hope expressed only in the present tense will no doubt be co-opted by the managers of this age. Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination, 1978 |
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![]() Hope . . . is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future. Emil Brunner, Eternal Hope, 1954
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![]() If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
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![]() Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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![]() The word which God has written on the brow of every man is Hope. Victor Hugo (1802-85), Treasure Bits from ed. By Rose |
be·lie transitive
verb
be·lied, be·ly·ing, be·lies. 1. To picture
falsely; misrepresent: 2. To show to be
false: 3. To be counter
to; contradict: [Middle
English bilien, from Old
English bel¶ogan,
to deceive with lies.] --be·li"er noun.
The Puritan --if not belied
by some singular stories, murmured, even
at this day, under the narrator's
breath--had fallen into certain
transgressions to which men of his great
animal development, whatever their faith
or principles, must continue liable,
until they put off impurity, along with
the gross earthly substance that involves
it.
The House of the
Seven Gables.
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary
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An Awful Itch Why does scratching an itch make the itch stop? Well, actually it doesnt. In itch is the result of an irritation of a nerve ending close to the surface of the skin. Scratching the spot where it itches overrides the itch by causing pain at the site. If the result of the scratching removes an external cause of the itch like a speck of dust or a loose thread the itch will not come back. If the causes of the itch the result of an allergic reaction or a mosquito bite, chances are that the itch will return. The Unbelievable Truth | Jeff Rovin |
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You are worthy, O Lord our God,
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What did the baby chick
say when the mother hen laid an orange? There was a journalist who was sent to find photographer Tanaka Rhee, who had been lost in New Guinea while on assignment for LIFE magazine. After months of searching through steaming jungles and rank swampland, he finally came upon a small village where several outsiders were held in deep, murky pits. Shining a flashlight into one pit after another, the journalist at last spotted his quarry. Jumping for joy, he sang out, "Oh, sweet Mr. Rhee of LIFE, at last I've found you!" TRUE FACT ... Humans begin laughing at two to three months of age. Six year olds laugh about 300 times per day, while adults laugh from 15 to 100 times per day. SOURCE: NYT, Dr. William F. Fry, Stanford University
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