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• I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.

  Alva Myrdal

  Giving Up, Today, Messages

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• After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

  Barry Commoner

  Children, Economic, Child Labor

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuiting - corruption and favoritism, mostly- endemic to the system.

  Iain Banks

  Looks, Use, Empires

  "The Player of Games (The Culture, Book 2)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 1, p. 91), 1988.

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• Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Temptation, Needs, Trials

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• The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up this short novel don't play to Roth's strengths. (...) The Humbling disappoints because it avoids these universal implications, and veers off into a baroque world of the unique and fantastic, never quite deigning to make its world concrete or to give its characters the honour of an independent will.

  Philip Hensher

  Character, Independent, Unique

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• It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love Not War - we were idealistic innocents, darling, despite the drugs and sex. We were sweet lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works. None of us were famous, we were broke. We didn't think they'd be writing books about us in 30 years. We were just kids doing the right thing.

  Margot Kidder

  Sweet, Sex, War

  “No kidding” by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• Despite their tremendous talent, (NBA players) are still, by and large, young adults, seeking validation from an authority figure, and there is no greater authority figure on a team than the coach. Needless to say, in today's warped, self-indulgent climate, too many players couldn't care less about appeasing the coach.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Player, Nba

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• Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and reach. And who, despite all this, seems pretty sane and beneficent by the standards of most gods. Oh, and who sometimes swears in Tibetan.

  Stephen Baxter

  Phones, Black, Corporations

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• Most elected officials cling to their ideological biases, despite the real-world facts that disprove their theories time and again. Most have no common sense, and most never acknowledge that they were wrong.

  Lawrence Kudlow

  Real, Common Sense, Political

  "Barney Frank Comes Home to the Facts". Article by Larry Kudlow, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 21, 2010.

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• England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.

  Colin MacInnes

  Football, Baby, Sweet

  "Out of the way: later essays".

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• Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Succeed, Miserable, Woman Suffrage

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• There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth

  Fanny Burney

  Wicked, Age, Earth

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• The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

  Constance Baker Motley

  Racism, Racist, Facts

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• The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.

  Tony Greig

  Issues, People, Decision

  "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.

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• The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

  Camille Paglia

  Males, Genius, Athens

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.132, Yale University Press

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• I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.

  Michael Hutchence

  Together, Private Life, Manage

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to every individual who was affected by these powerful storms, ... Despite facing serious obstacles, the wireless industrys response to these natural disasters was nothing short of Herculean. We remain fully committed to aiding and assisting our subscribers in the affected regions in whatever way we can.

  Steve Largent

  Prayer, Powerful, Storm

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• Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [...] Learn how to be happy and keep this in mind: You can't be happy unless you stop being afraid.

  Homer Hickam

  Optimistic, People, Mind

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• Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs:
  Despite the artful tensions of the calendar,
  The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites,
  The costly aversion of the eyes from death-
  Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.

  Philip Larkin

  Running, Eye, Solitude

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Intellectual, Victory, Tragedy

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• Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.

  John P. Kotter

  Leadership, People, Inspire

  John P. Kotter, John J. Gabarro (2015). “Tools to Change Your Organization: The Change Leadership Collection (2 Books)”, p.28, Harvard Business Review Press

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• We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Love, Peace, Gun

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• I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … . Despite my alienation from myself at that moment, and even though I was nothing but a battleground for invisible forces, I was aware of every detail of what was going on around me.

  Knut Hamsun

  Mad, Details, Able

  Knut Hamsun (2008). “Hunger: A Novel”, p.6, Macmillan

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• I like to have the screen full of color, twenty colors on the screen at once, fifty colors. There are no dominants despite what people have said.

  Claude Chabrol

  Color, People, Fifty

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• Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routines—habits—that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a day’s work done.

  Charles Duhigg

  War, Years, Long

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.162, Random House

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