Rallino said:. This is a direct translation, but the word order emphasizes that the hope is the last one to die. Literally: "As the last one dies the hope". Frank78 Senior Member Saxony-Anhalt. Frank78 said:. Usually it's used with the article. It rather says that someone is very optimistic to reach a certain goal, despite the chances are very bad. Montesacro Senior Member Roma. Can you tell me, if his memoires exist in some other language, please?
There are also a number of variants based on "As long as there is x, there is hope. Hope never dies however, although it can be out. Basically, that's what it's about. Support Provided By: Learn more. Friday, Nov The Latest.
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RAY SUAREZ: There are many people in this book who have tremendous reserves of patience, good humor, and a kind of peace, some of them at the end of long lives of these struggles that you mentioned. You'd be the lead, I think. RAY SUAREZ: Are there some people who you think would really stick with the people who are watching this program if they got to know them, their stories that you'd want people to know out of this book? Great seeing you again. More Ways to Watch.
In the years that followed, Terkel heard out the dramatis personae of the nation's other great dramas All the while, he broadcast nightly for 42 years on WFMT radio in Chicago, etching the lives and thoughts of more and more people on to tape which now fills a vault.
Terkel's books are mostly about spot welders, piano tuners or salesmen, but in four decades, he also unpeeled Tennessee Williams, Segovia, Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead, David Hockney, Leonard Bernstein and Bertrand Russell in the middle of the Cuban missile crisis, plus a galaxy of others. Terkel's mother kept a boarding house and he learnt his left-wing politics from the itinerant workers and union militants who captivated his childhood.
He says his latest book is his most thematically ambitious yet: 'I had my doubts. Hope as a theme seemed too abstract. Catholic priests discuss the social obligations of their faith; a Teamsters' union militant surveys his combat with corporate greed and union compliance with it. Literature became an arsenal where the poorest and the weakest could always find weapons to their hand. The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.
Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end. We are the most confused generation. If our focus is whether our wants are met, it is almost impossible to remain thankful. Let's be thankful that our needs have been met!
Some things I won't do for any amount of money.
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