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And then he goes back to his quarters, breaks down and weeps because he's convinced that the situation is hopeless.
So is this a hopeless cause?
Let's imagine that you are really good at making arrowheads, but you're hopeless at making the wooden shafts with the flight feathers attached.
Two other people you know are very good at making the wooden shafts, but they're hopeless at making the arrowheads.
So is the situation hopeless?
But one version makes it easy to dismiss Africa as hopeless, while the other fuels hope that a billion people can continue to make progress towards prosperity.
Virtually millions of people are caught up in a hopeless cycle of incarceration, violence and poverty that has been created by our drug laws and not the drugs themselves.
So it's not all hopeless.
He said, "When we were in Eastern Europe and dealing with oppression, we wanted all kinds of things, but mostly what we needed was hope, an orientation of the spirit, a willingness to sometimes be in hopeless places and be a witness."
Now, a lot of people think that this is kind of idealistic, ridiculous, maybe even hopeless, but I just want to talk to you a little bit about why I think that the job I have is actually a privilege, okay, and give you a little bit of the motivation for my getting into this line of work, if that's what you call it.
This is what gives us the hopeless image.
Suddenly, though, everything got a bit out of control, and, although it was still dawn, we were filled in this small little compound we had made with literally hundreds of people turning up with ailments and diseases and just ... a hopeless situation.
It was run by the great and powerful parents, and the people were helpless and hopeless naughty children.
I spoke at Dartmouth once, and a woman stood up after I spoke, I write in my book, and she said to me, "Professor, you've convinced me this is hopeless.
They assumed two percent, and that made it a pretty hopeless story, because population growth was two and a half.
Old guys are hopeless; we have to wait for them to die off.
For Russian society, I'm an old maid and hopeless to ever get married.
I felt so hopeless.
The battle was hopeless until his nephew Iolaus thought to cauterize the necks with fire, keeping the heads from regrowing.
Jails are actually supposed to rehabilitate a person, not cause him or her to become more angry, frustrated, and feel more hopeless.
Her mother felt hopeless and overwhelmed and alone because she knew that her daughter was not getting the support she needed, and she did not know how to help her.
To thrive and survive in my profession, you really have to be a hopeless optimist.
Not a guarantee, but with a bit of musician's luck, it's far from hopeless.
I come at this question not as a green campaigner, in fact, I confess to be rather hopeless at recycling.
In another study with over 30,000 high school students, they found that for each hour of lost sleep, there was a 38 percent increase in feeling sad or hopeless, and a 58 percent increase in teen suicide attempts.
And most of all, we've learned from the courage of Liberia's community health workers that we as people are not defined by the conditions we face, no matter how hopeless they seem.
If you're a college student who, say, is in a downward spiral, and you feel helpless and hopeless, unabated, that could cost you your life.
And one of them wrote, "Situation hopeless.
Even though life is getting objectively better by nearly every conceivable standard, more people feel hopeless, depressed and alone.
Some problems are good for neural nets; we know that others, neural nets are hopeless on them.
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