Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. – François VI de la Rochefoucault

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Weve got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the worlds greatest hope. – Rick Perry

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A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other peoples hope. – Christopher Hitchens

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I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. – Thomas Jefferson

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Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy! – Robert Mugabe

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And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, It could be worse. It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better. – Mitt Romney

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In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyones existence in this world. – Wislawa Szymborska

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I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell. – Audre Lorde

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