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Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.