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Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition. - Edward Gibbon

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition. – Edward Gibbon

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The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. – Edward Gibbon

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Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself. – Edward Gibbon

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We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better. – Kofi Annan

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Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace. – Frank B. Kellogg

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I suppose if Id got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life. – A. N. Wilson

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They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on. – Christopher Walken

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The very first lesson that I learnt from the Quran was the message of unity and peace. – Cat Stevens

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If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity. – Italian Proverb

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