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• I began to realize that life, despite moments of happiness and joy, is really about discovering priorities and dealing with unforeseen vagaries, differences, obstacles, inconveniences, and imperfections.

  Maureen McCormick

  Differences, Imperfection, Priorities

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• Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence.

  Norman Lamm

  Religious, Differences, Nuance

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• Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Hands, Civilization, Progress

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• A determined will, grounded on a clear order of rank of values, coupled with organic strength of outlook, will also one day - despite all hindrances - enforce its realisation in all domains.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Order, One Day, Determined

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• What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of signals, it's the strength he's able to concentrate within himself, by staying centered. That Maori player was like a tree, a great indestructible oak with deep roots and a powerful radiance- everyone could feel it. And yet you also got the impression that the great oak could fly, that it would be as quick as the wind, despite, or perhaps because of, its deep roots.

  Muriel Barbery

  Powerful, Player, Wind

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• According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Iraq, White, House

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• My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fashion, Men, Numbers

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• In the final analysis, despite our diversity, there is only one type of vegan -- a person who is committed to and practices a reverence and respect for all life.

  Joanne Stepaniak

  Practice, Diversity, Finals

  Joanne Stepaniak (2000). “Being Vegan”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action.

  Zeena Schreck

  Spiritual, Age, Quality

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• The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.

  Robert Higgs

  Wisdom, Your Side, Government

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• The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Equality, Race

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• For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

  Carl Sagan

  Greatness, Failing, Fallibility

  Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated

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• Many successful people have fear, along with doubts and worries. The difference is that those who know how to succeed also know how to take action despite these worries and fears. You too can learn how to master fear, by understanding that fear is in our own minds, and therefore under our own control.

  T. Harv Eker

  Successful, Differences, People

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• To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism

  Eboo Patel

  Heart, People, Pluralism

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• I will light candles this Christmas, Candles of joy, despite all sadness, Candles of hope where despair keeps watch. Candles of courage where fear is ever present, Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days, Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens. Candles of love to inspire all my living, Candles that will burn all the year long.

  Howard Thurman

  Sadness, Light, Years

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• Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first
  international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the
  adoption of the first human rights laws and to the creation of the
  first human rights non-governmenta l organization. And yet despite
  the efforts of the international community to combat this abhorrent
  practice, it is still widely prevalent in all
  its insidious forms, old and new.

  Kofi Annan

  Real, Rights, Law

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• There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Acceptance, Offering

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.394, A&C Black

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• Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Talking, Ideas, Leader

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• While a little faith may bring your souls to heaven, a lot of faith--clinging to God despite your circumstances--will bring heaven to your soul

  Skip Heitzig

  Heaven, Soul, May

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• God, despite my circumstances, I will find reasons to praise You.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Praise, Reason, Circumstances

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Feb 06, 2015

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• It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.

  Halldór Laxness

  Old Saying, Stills, Knows

  Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

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• We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

  Matt Ridley

  Falling In Love, People, Complicated

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• If everybody feels fear when approaching something totally new in life—yet so many are out there doing it despite the fear—then we must conclude that fear is not the problem.

  Susan Jeffers

  Problem, Feels, Ifs

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• The masses will not vote for their own upliftment in a higher order of society. This has to be accomplished without their support and request, despite them and indeed against them. It is absurd to pivot your whole project, as does a conventional party, on the submission of change to the decision of those who so need to be changed. You might as well make the case for law and order conditional on the approval of the criminals.

  Colin Jordan

  Party, Order, Law

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• Every time I fail, I assume I will be a stronger person for it. I keep on running figuratively and literally, despite a limp that gets more noticeable with each passing season, because for me there has always been a place to go and a terrible urgency to get there.

  Joan Benoit

  Running, Stronger, Places To Go

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