We can choose to be free. We need that astonishing confidence in a world which would often tell us otherwise. It is the basis of all our faith and all our hope.

我们可以选择自由，我们需要这种令人吃惊的信心，尽管这个世界总是告诉我们相反的情况，因为它是我们所有信念和希望的基础。

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Frankly it would be little short of astonishing if even Mr Hester, with his background in investment banking, understood everything that RBS gets up to around the world.

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