"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.“

-Norman Cousins

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"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences."

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"It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing."

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"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself."

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"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."

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"We will not have peace by afterthought."

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"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."

-Robert Wyatt

"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys."

-Marvin Gaye

"I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it."

-Lucy Hale

"I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too."

-Fuzzy Zoeller

"It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes."

-John Clayton

"There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride."

-Fuzzy Zoeller