#despair

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#democrats #despair #elections #favor #gloomy

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. ↗

— Menander

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I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#because #believe #competitors #create #despair

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love? ↗

— Max Muller

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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within. ↗

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

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If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#awful #beginning #brighter #coming #dark

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#before #despair #god #humble #jesus