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" Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present. "

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Past

Learning

Hope

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" How disappointment tracks the steps of hope. "

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" Russia's first major intervention began in 1768, when Catherine the Great went to war with the Ottomans, and Count Alexei Orlov, the brother of her lover Grigory, sailed the Baltic fleet through the Strait of Gibraltar to rally rebellions in the Mediterranean. "

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First

Her

" I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together. "

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May

" It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. "

" Unlike monarchs, who pass power to their heirs at the moment of death to ensure the survival of the regime, tyrants must simply survive as long as possible. "

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Death

Survival

" Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation. "

" I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do. "

" I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active. "

" If we are to have a war with America, we will have no hope of winning unless the U.S. fleet in Hawaiian waters can be destroyed. "

" I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different. "

" In the new Georgia, Stalin is no longer Georgian. He's a Russian emperor. "

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Georgia

Emperor

Stalin

" Putin regards Stalin as a great tsar; he is a great tsar. Asked who the worst tsars were, he said Nicholas II and Gorbachev. "

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Stalin

Who

" To live without Hope is to Cease to live. "

" Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place. "

" One of the strange things about doing publicity is that a mistake in a newspaper profile long ago is repeated and amplified over time. "

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Doing

Time

Strange

" Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. "

" Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution. "

" I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that. "

" President Yeltsin's instincts were decent: he encouraged the marketplace, the press flourished, and everything started to open - even the KGB archives. Yeltsin reburied Nicholas II. Free from Soviet anti-semitism, he surrounded himself with Jewish capitalists and advisers who returned to public life for the first time since the 1920s. "

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Life

Everything

Free

" Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. "

" We cannot elect a president who provides no hope to the laid-off union worker, no hope for the mother of five and no hope for the researcher who might find a cure for cancer. We cannot elect a leader who is willfully ignorant to the outcry of young people who want real criminal justice reform and responsible gun safety legislation now. "

" I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late. "

" One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. "

" I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. "

" Believe it or not, some Western analysts in the 1930s insisted that Stalin was a 'moderate,' controlled by extremists like the secret police chief Nikolai Yezhov. "

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Some

Police

" These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way. "

Jonathan Kellerman

People

Old Friends

" Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime. "

" The foundation that has made America that last, best hope on earth hasn't gone anywhere. It still exists. It is up to us to return to it. "

" We should have hope because we've earned it. We've worked for it! It's ours. "

" Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake. "