Despite Quotes

• Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Hope, Believe

  "Voices Carry" by Alice Hoffman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.

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• Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent in forming manners.

  John Dewey

  Play, Atmosphere, Agents

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out of the joy that makes it go.

  Daoud Hari

  Running, Heart, Laughing

  Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.90, Random House

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• Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.

  Michael Palin

  Curiosity, World, Window

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• Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

  Prince

  People, Who You Are

  "Prince never apologized for who he was. For that, he was an inspiration" by Colby Itkowitz, www.washingtonpost.com. April 21, 2016.

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• History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Encouragement

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2016

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• The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Men, Brave, Risk

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• Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.

  Paulo Coelho

  Enthusiasm, Defeat

  Paulo Coelho (2013). “Manuscript Found in Accra”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

  Sherwood Smith

  Hurt, Ideas, Gossip

  "Crown Duel". Book by Sherwood Smith, 1997.

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• I think [G.W.] Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

  Harry Belafonte

  Selfish, Believe, Thinking

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• It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Real, Men, Reason Why

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.183, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

  Mark Udall

  Holocaust, Documentation, Horror

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• Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Philosophical, World Religions

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• There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past. It is very suspicious of freedom, uncomfortable with diversity hostile to science, unfriendly to reason, contemptuous of personal autonomy. It sees America as a religious nation. It views patriotism as allegiance to God. It secretly adores coercion and conformity. Despite our constitution, despite the legacy of the Enlightenment, it appeals to millions of Americans and threatens our freedom.

  Sherwin Wine

  Religious, Father, Past

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• What is... disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest that their emotional attachments to Israel cause... The Israeli occupation of all territories must end, including Congress.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Emotional, Israel, Attachment

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• Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.

  John Donne

  Lying, Night, Light

  John Donne (2013). “Love poems”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else.  This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the stregnth to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me with a sense of purpose so strong that it overcame my fears.  Even when boredom, frustration, fatigue or despair threatened to overwhelm me, it was that powerful sense of purpose that kept me going.

  Roz Savage

  Strong, Powerful, Ocean

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• I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitement, 'We're going places and God knows what'll happen next.' It's very interesting. It's very exciting.

  Gail Collins

  Interesting, Energy, Houston

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• The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.

  Gail Collins

  Crazy, Nice, Writing

  "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

  Billy Corgan

  Long, Want, Influential

  "Billy Corgan on Pumpkins' Split, "Loving" Jessica Simpson: Preview the Story". Rolling Stone Interview, www.rollingstone.com. March 3, 2010.

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• Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

  Stephen Covey

  Technology, Organization, People

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Book, Grandmother

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• A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, People, Delusion

  "The atheist". Interview with Gordy Slack, www.salon.com. April 30, 2005.

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• Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

  Les Dawson

  Powerful, Feminist, Facts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite.

  Junot Diaz

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

  "Author Explains Tales Of New Vision, New Life". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 10, 2009.

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