"Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for."
"So hope for a great sea-change on the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells."
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Source: Speech by the President of USA to the People of Derry, cain.ulst.ac.uk. November 30, 1995.
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