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"We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe."
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"The stars will live for me, if not anything else."
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"The deep breathe you just took to show that your problems are bigger than you, is the final breathe someone had taken right now in his life! As long as your breathe is not the final one, you still have a hope!"
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"In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness."
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"Morning sunrise wakes me upwith rays of hope.Clouds of fear can hide the sunbut not for long.If rays of hope are strongand patience is a song,then hope will bloom andrain will bring a rainbow."
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"Hope is a little candle that continues to flicker in the heart in the darkest moments of impossibility."
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"Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end."
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"Confidence and hope builds up in you when you have a glimpse of what your future is like."
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"Hope is the little bird that continues to sing the songs of possibilities in your heart when everything else says to give up."
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"Hope is my guideline, happiness is my purpose, and love is my life's strength and power."
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"Forget the past! Look straight ahead with great hope."
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"The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight."
Attitude
"Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland."
Control
"We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe."
Hope
"Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe."
Act
"We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender."
Fight
"Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce."
Experience
"How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it."
Money
"The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them."
Trade
"Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke."
Movies
"Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia."
Politics
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