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As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.

Rebecca Solnit
Dream, Imagination, Unexpected
"Civil Society at Ground Zero" by Rebecca Solnit, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.
As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.