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Hope

Hope is considering something of a possible situation, combined with a desire for it. It may vary from something minor to longlasting hope for something big.

Examples include:

• hoping to get some object, or a job, or to get rich
• hoping for oneself or somebody else to get cured
• hoping to meet somebody (again)
• hoping to catch a train
• being in love, hoping that this is reciprocal
• very general: hoping to get happy
• hoping for eternal life

Christian theology considers the hope for eternal life to be a virtue because it glorifies God, and this glorification is said to be the only purpose of anything in the Universe. See also Virtue

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Hope is the only spirit that remained in Pandora's Box when all the evils where taken out and obviously Pandora let out hope from the box as well.

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There are also some places named Hope:

• Hope, England (in Derbyshire)

• Hope, British Columbia

• Hope, Arkansas (the birthplace of Bill Clinton)
• Hope, Maine
• Hope, Michigan
• Hope, New York
• Hope, North Dakota
• Hope, Rhode Island

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Hope is also in use as an English surname. Celebrities with the name include Bob Hope.

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The Hope Diamond is a famous blue diamond, supposed to be cursed. The "curse" is generally considered pseudoscience -- an urban legend.

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There is also the Hope programming language.

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The HOPE shuttle program, H-II Orbiting Plane, commonly called HOPE-X

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