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• Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent.

  Scott McClellan

  New Orleans, Texas, People

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• Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.

  Hideki Tojo

  Attitude, Party, Japan

  "Hideki Tojo's Prison Diary". "The Journal of Historical Review", Vol. 12, No. 1, (pp. 31-85), www.ihr.org. 1992.

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• A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not secure despite twelve carrier battle groups. We must accept that it is a cornerstone of Mexican foreign policy to export illegally each year a million of its own to the United States to avoid needed reform at home and to influence American domestic policy.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Country, Home, Years

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• The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature of the moment, captive to impression, and nursed on action, not talk. It must be maintained hourly and can erode or be lost with a single act of failed nerve, despite all the braggadocio of threatened measures. And, once gone, the remedies needed for its restoration are always more expensive, deadly - and controversial - than would have been its simple maintenance.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Simple, President, Nerves

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• What Americans cant face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  War, Chinese, Faces

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• Not conceding a goal at home is always important in a Cup tie. But despite that there is no doubt that this tie is still wide open.

  Roberto Mancini

  Home, Ties, Goal

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• One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may separate final effects from ultimate causes lying outside the domain of that field of science.

  Jared Diamond

  Lying, Long, Historical

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.393, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.

  Chris Patten

  Winning, People, Want

  "Hong Kong’s Democratic Aspirations Not a Threat to China" by Lord Patten, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2014.

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• I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.

  Jerome Groopman

  Odds, Long, Roles

  Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.60, Random House

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• Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

  Michael Medved

  Powerful, Voice, Tvs

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• I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.

  Anton Chekhov

  Best Effort, Police, Criticism

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the world around us; to refabricate it in our own image; to reinvent it for our own benefit. And so, it becomes something of a challenge, a task, to recover (or at least attempt to recover) the real world despite all the impediments to that end.

  Errol Morris

  Real, Believe, Challenges

  "The Museum of Modern Art with Ron Rosenbaum". www.errolmorris.com. Fall, 1999.

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• Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice

  Pat Roberts

  Justice, Dollars, Rewards

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• We must remain human, even in the most difficult times …
  Because, despite everything, there must always be humanity within us. We have to bring it to others.

  Vittorio Arrigoni

  Humanity, Difficult Times, Humans

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• Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.… The function of the Anarchist is two-fold. By daily courage in non-cooperation with the tyrannical forces of the State and the Church, he helps to tear down present society; the Anarchist by daily cooperation with his fellows in overcoming evil with good-will and solidarity builds toward the anarchistic commonwealth which is formed by voluntary action with the right of secession.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Philosophy, Men, Two

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.199, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. But we lean forward nonetheless because, despite all risks and rational argument, we believe that the path we are choosing is right and best thing to do. We refuse to be bystanders, even if we do not know exactly where our actions will lead.

  Howard Schultz

  Wise, Believe, Bystanders

  Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon (2012). “Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul”, p.7, Rodale

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• Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that suffuses every moment and endures despite inevitable setbacks.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Profound, World, Way

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• Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.

  Robert McKee

  Hero, Writing, Skills

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• I think the only way we retain credibility with the Arab world is to say, 'When push came to shove, despite the mistakes we made in the past, we are with you in democracy.'

  John Fund

  Mistake, Past, Thinking

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• Despite what many nutritionists have preached for years, rapid weight-loss diets can be healthy if done correctly and can work wonders on reducing pounds and inches in just days.

  Mike Moreno

  Loss, Years, Healthy

  Mike Moreno (2013). “The 17 Day Diet Breakthrough Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world or by political and financial elites. Hence they must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about anything.

  Thomas Piketty

  Discipline, Political, Intellectual

  Thomas Piketty (2017). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.41, Harvard University Press

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• In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Cities, Style, Hours

  "Fear of the dark: Mariella Frostrup goes public" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

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• Out of pure spite we pretty much always said the opposite of what the other said, no matter what they said, only to mark distance. That's how we ended up calling ourselves Satanists, despite the fact that we absolutely were not. There was not a single Satanist in the whole Black Metal scene in Norway in 1991-92.

  Varg Vikernes

  Distance, Opposites, Black

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• Despite its scientific
  pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

  Robert Kuttner

  Art, Economics, Stills

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• Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.

  Eva Hart

  Children, Growing Up, Order

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