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Lesser than Hope: The pursuit for the base expectations

Lesser than Hope: The pursuit for the base expectations

I was asked recently “What do we have the right to hope for?” As one educated by the scientific method as we all have been I ended up listing the base expectations of life. I am still a little shocked as to what I did. Because if I did this then what would others do? In the light of this there is a dawning realisation that hope has atrophied..

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