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• To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mistake, Alive, Horror

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• Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Giving, Kind

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• Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have to respect them in spite of their concomitant unpleasantness. But there is no such evidence. To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Real, People

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• I believe in the basic goodness of my species, because that appears to be a positive tactic and quality that leads to better chances of survival- and in spite of our foolishness, we seem to have survived.

  James Randi

  Believe, Survival, Quality

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• We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.

  Victor Hugo

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• I believe that the Lord has a plan for each of us that's better than anything we can imagine, even if that plan isn't obvious to us at every stage. He prepared me for this over a long period of time - in lower-profile locker rooms and the grocery store and in Europe, through all the personal tragedies and in spite of the people who doubted me along the way.

  Kurt Warner

  Believe, Europe, Long

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• It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Law, Essence, People

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 6 : Equality, Value and Merit, 1960.

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• When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Christian, Joy, Accounts

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• This is what happens when you don't let gays marry; they start designing clothes out of spite.

  Jon Stewart

  Gay, Clothes, Design

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• Today's Declaration: I am courageous. I am willing to act in spite of fear.

  T. Harv Eker

  Today, Courageous, Declaration

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 13, 2016

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• The capitalist system, in spite of all obstacles put in its way by governments and politicians, has raised the standard of living of the masses in an unprecedented way.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Way, Obstacles

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• I'm not really a practising Jew but I keep a kosher kitchen just to spite Hitler.

  Miriam Margolyes

  Kitchen, Jew, Kosher

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• Almost everyone I meet is successful because of doing a lot of things right, and almost everyone I meet is successful in spite of some behavior that defies common sense.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Successful, Common Sense, Behavior

  Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.26, Profile Books

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• Fear is a normal human emotion. It is not in itself a killer. We can learn to be aware when fear grips us, and can train to operate through and in spite of our fear. If, on the other hand, we don't understand that fear is normal and has to be controlled and overcome, it will paralyze us and stop us in our tracks. We will no longer think clearly or analyze rationally. We prepare for it and control it; we never let it control us. It if does, we cannot lead.

  Colin Powell

  Thinking, Hands, Track

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• Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not mean to suggest that engineering can do without science, on the contrary, it stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific research and the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer.

  Walter Guido Vincenti

  Art, Mean, Engineering

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• God has loved us in spite of us.

  Steven J Lawson

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• The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.

  Richard Posner

  Light, Punishment, Fake

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• God does not love us because we are lovable, have a pleasing personality or a good sense of humor, or at rare times show exceptional kindness. In spite of who we are and what we have done, God wants to pour out His love on us, for the unlovable are also precious unto Him.

  David B. Haight

  Kindness, Personality, Doe

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• We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.)

  Robert Wright

  Mean, Trying, Peculiar

  "The Moral Animal". Book by Robert Wright, www.wired.com. 1994.

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• You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked out from the darkness in search of the light, and have had a difficult problem in life that you have not been able to solve in spite of great efforts. And then, when the time was fulfilled and God's hour had come, did not a solution, light, and deliverance come quite unexpectedly, perhaps quite differently than you thought?

  Eberhard Arnold

  Light, Years, Long

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• If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Lasts, Contradictory, Infirmity

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• To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one's neighbor.

  Thomas Merton

  Responsibility, Decision, Faces

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.74, New Directions Publishing

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• We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Disappointment, Frustration, World

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less on his own, when you really get down to it.

  Harry S. Truman

  President, Important, Doctrine

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• The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

  Henry Rollins

  Art, America

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