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In life you hoped to do what you could but mostly you did what you were told and that was the end of it.

In life you hoped to do what you could but mostly you did what you were told and that was the end of it.
– Iain M Banks

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  2. One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher. – Iain M Banks
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  8. [T]here can be a form of vanity in grief that is indulged rather than suffered. – Iain M Banks
  9. the ignobility of thought and action that desperation born of indigence produces. – Iain M Banks
  10. Hey, Wrobik; cheer up, yeah? You’re going to shoot down a ????ing starship. It’ll be an experience. – Iain Banks
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  12. All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. – Iain M Banks
  13. I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others. – Iain Banks
  14. We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it. – Iain M Banks
  15. Patience can be a means of letting matters mature to a proper state for action, not just a way of letting time slip away. – Iain M Banks
  16. I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk. – Iain Banks
  17. Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant. – Iain Banks
  18. Mostly good is enough. Mostly good produces healthy kids who know they are valued and either forget the other parts or turn them into funny stories. – Jen Hatmaker
  19. Humans are mostly kind only to their own-self, and their own. To another being, they’re mostly indifferent, if not inhumane. – Fakeer Ishavardas
  20. In the past people used to rob banks, now the banks rob the people. – David Alejandro Fearnhead
  21. Live BOLDLY! ……because no one ever told you healing is a life long process. – Kierra CT Banks
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  24. She had picked up life where she had left off… and hoped that would be enough to get the universe to politely overlook her. – Thomm Quackenbush
  25. Angel was someone he’d never imagined having in his life, but always hoped for. She was more than worth the wait, and he was never letting her go. – Katie Reus
  26. I’d never heard of a rain check before, but hoped it was something storm rescuers bought bags of souvenirs for their kids with. – Amber McRee Turner
  27. What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation. – Michael Ende
  28. You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it. – Stephen King
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  30. Her hand warmed from his touch and she hoped the cloud-covered moon hid her blush. – Carla Reighard
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  32. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrew 11:1 KJV) – Anonymous
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  35. When he shut himself in his apartment he found that he hoped he was waiting for nothing at all. – Ramsey Campbell
  36. Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen. – Duane T Gish
  37. By dint of waiting, he hoped his heart would wear out and stop beating. What other way was there to stop loving someone? – AnneLaure Bondoux
  38. I hoped Claire would have a girl. A nephew would be fun until he got his first erection and then he’d be like the rest of them. – Meredith Schorr
  39. Even in death, my mother smiled-”and she had every reason to do so, for I had become precisely what she hoped I would-”her mirror image. – Peggy Toney Horton
  40. I guess some problems were too big to fix and you just hoped they would take care of themselves. – Ryan C Thomas

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