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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. – Joseph Addison

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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. – Joseph Addison

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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. – Joseph Addison

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As a relatively young woman – Im 33 – I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when Im elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week. – Lucy Powell

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Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine. – Paul Wellstone

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Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief. – Franz Schubert

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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. – Benjamin Banneker

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We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me. – Mira Nair

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The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you. – Tony Wilson

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I got fitter when I did Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. I wore a loincloth – thats a lot of motivation! – Donny Osmond

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