Hope is not naïveté; it is the rational belief that the futu... - Abdoulaye Wade

"Hope is not naïveté; it is the rational belief that the future can be better than the past."

Abdoulaye Wade Hope

President, Politician Senegalese Born 1926 (age 100)

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