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• Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.

  Vasily Smyslov

  Secret, Development, Chess

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• Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard are not militarily powerful, nor even economically prosperous. They have a commitment to try and make the world a better place.

  Desmond Tutu

  Powerful, Commitment, Trying

  FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Jan 10, 2014

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• Despite our differences, we are all in this together. No act of kindness or compassion goes unnoticed. To change the world, take compassionate action within your immediate sphere of influence. To change yourself, start by being still and making time just to listen.

  Edmund Bourne

  Change, Kindness, Compassion

  Edmund Bourne (2009). “Global Shift: How A New Worldview Is Transforming Humanity”, p.325, New Harbinger Publications

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• Chess strategy as such today is still in its diapers, despite Tarrasch's statement 'We live today in a beautiful time of progress in all fields'. Not even the slightest attempt has been made to explore and formulate the laws of chess strategy.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Beautiful, Law, Progress

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• Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear.

  Susana Martinez

  Believe, Resentment, Built

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• In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language, and I mean including America and England, at some time wrote for Punch. Jerome K. Jerome, who wrote Three Men In A Boat, I loved. I was very impressed when I read a piece by Mark Twain in Punch, and realized that despite the fact that they were on different continents, Jerome K. Jerome and Mark Twain had the same kind of laconic, laid-back, "The human race is damn stupid, but quite interesting" attitude. They were almost talking with the same voice.

  Terry Pratchett

  Attitude, Stupid, Mean

  "Terry Pratchett on his latest novel, his medical diagnosis, and more". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2012.

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• Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin, because you got to persevere despite the fact that people tell you you shouldn't do this or you shouldn't do that or you're not good enough or your style's too different. I've heard all of that stuff.

  John Legend

  Song, Determination, Writing

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Vision, Trying, Enthusiasm

  Paul Cézanne, Alberto Giacometti, Felix Andreas Baumann, Poul Erik Tøjner, Tobia Bezzola (2008). “Cézanne & Giacometti: paths of doubt”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

  Ian Frazier

  Texas, Feelings, Secret

  "On Texas" by Ian Frazier, www.newyorker.com. March 24, 2014.

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• The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Giving Up, Commitment

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• At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think that we read to escape. And I think that place, more than anything, provides that escape quickly, if an author is engaged with the place.

  Tea Obreht

  Thinking, The End Of The Day, Literature

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• Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.

  Bruce Schneier

  Country, Way, Damage

  Bruce Schneier (2014). “Bruce Schneier on Trust Set”, p.471, John Wiley & Sons

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• Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.

  Jann Wenner

  Photography, Long, Design

  "Jann Wenner: Magazines' Rush To Ipad Is 'Sheer Insanity And Insecurity And Fear'". Interview with Nat Ives, adage.com. May 30, 2011.

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• In a 91-part series of sob stories from the laid off and the disgruntled, The NY Times is in the midst of bemoaning 'the downsizing of America' - better known as 'the whining of America.' The cause of all the heartache, in the esteemed newspaper of record's view, appears to be heartless corporate chieftains - as well as capitalism itself. Americans are moving forward, despite shackles. The shackles I am referring to are not NAFTA, not corporations. They are, instead, the barriers imposed by our own government.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Moving, Heart, Government

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• Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!

  Zig Ziglar

  Funny Things, People, Problem

  Zig Ziglar (1977). “See You at the Top”

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• Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Hope, Darkness, Moments

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• Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as individuals, and by being called rational, and the idea soon wormed its way into the belief systems of nearly everyone in the upper class. Despite resistance from Church and State, the idea of rational individuality replaced the assumption that truth comes only from god and king.

  Alex Pentland

  Kings, Class, Ideas

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• Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all living beings in nature must unfold in their particular way and become themselves despite all opposition.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  People, Way, Easy

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• No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Lying, Ignorance, Mouths

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• I have to ask you to resist, not to comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Men, Cost, Accepting

  "Life And Death". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1987.

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• Despite what you've been conditioned to believe, sexual desire is sacred and virtuous. When you and your beloved merge physically and emotionally, you go beyond the boundaries of the ego and experience timelessness, naturalness, playfulness and defenselessness .

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, Ego, Desire

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• No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and dumbing-down, you have to do more intellectual work to make sense of today's television or games - much less the internet - than you did a few decades ago.

  Steven Johnson

  Past, Average, Years

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• Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness.

  Desmond Tutu

  Easter, Hate, Justice

  Desmond Tutu (1982). “Crying in the wilderness: the struggle for justice in South Africa”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.

  Claude Monet

  Depressing, Art, Lovers

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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