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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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Seeing, despite the name, isn’t merely visual.

Seth Godin

Names, Visuals, Seeing

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It is an important part of our life’s experience to develop the strength, courage, and integrity to hold fast to truth and righteousness despite the buffeting we may experience.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Integrity, Important, May

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In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?

Sebastian Junger

Self, Risk, Way

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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles;
Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Obstacles, Submissive, Surrender

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Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game-interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself.

L. Ron Hubbard

Pain, Games, Play

L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.99, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof-tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specifics of our historic moment.

Carrie Mae Weems

Beautiful, Art, Powerful

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Holiness is not reserved for a small number of exceptional persons. It is for everyone. It is the Lord who brings us to holiness when we are willing to collaborate in the salvation of the world for the glory of God, despite our sin and our sometimes rebellious temperament.

Pope John Paul II

Small Numbers, World, Holiness

Pope John Paul II (2012). “A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World”, p.261, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have trouble grasping a simple fact: Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises-War and Shopping-simply will not work.

Arundhati Roy

Real, War, Simple

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We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.

Dalai Lama

Differences, People, Wish

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Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.

Charles Spurgeon

Art, Doubt, Whispering

Charles H. Spurgeon (2016). “Morning & Evening”, p.511, Bible Study Steps

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Despite the obvious emphasis of Scripture (in regard to suffering), we are bombarded by suggestions that the 'successful' Christian living takes place in the realm of constant victory, health, wholeness, and financial prosperity. In response to this we are not to pretend that suffering doesn’t exist or that it might be instantly cured. Such notions are the product of empty heads and closed Bibles.

Alistair Begg

Christian, Successful, Bombarded By

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Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to have remained a secret.

Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual, Keys, Secret

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.51, New World Library

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I think my image gets distorted in the public's mind. They don't get a clear or full picture of what I'm like, despite the press coverage I mentioned early. Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told. The part that doesn't get printed is often the part that would make the printed part less sensational by shedding light on the facts.

Michael Jackson

Thinking, Light, Mind

Michael Jackson (2010). “Moonwalk”, p.148, Random House

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I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Archie Panjabi

Fighting, Thinking, Community

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Despite everything, I have few regrets. I have crammed a lot of living into my time.

Peter Lawford

Regret, My Time

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We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid and fluffy, and Hell is like the inside of a volcano. In many stories, both realms are governed by dominance hierarchies headed by gods or devils. Monotheists talked about the king of kings. In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe. Few found the similarity suspicious.

Carl Sagan

Running, Kings, Volcanoes

Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.65, Ballantine Books

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Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.

Mika Brzezinski

Successful, Fifteen, Pay

Mika Brzezinski (2012). “Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth”, p.2, Weinstein Books

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That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories of exaggerated mischief and the altruism of sharing pornography, was actually a farcical fellowship. Because what a man really wanted was to be bigger than his friends.

Manu Joseph

Memories, Reality, Men

Manu Joseph (2011). “Serious Men”, p.10, HarperCollins Publishers

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A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. She is less likely to have an agenda than a young woman-no biological clock tick-tocking beside her lover's bed, no campaign to lead him to the altar, no rescue fantasies. The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long a she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of her life, despite failures and false starts.

Gail Sheehy

Sweet, Women, Wine

Gail Sheehy (2006). “Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life”, Random House Incorporated

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I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is far beyond even my imagination's flight. For me to long to grow into that Height - is this not a miracle? I am mortal. My thoughts, my deeds, my experiences - everything that I have and everything that I am - represent mortality. Yet despite everything that I have and everything that I am, I am longing for Immortality. Is this not a miracle?

Sri Chinmoy

Feet, Imagination, Long

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Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a closed mind. ...the basic issue is not the efficacy of Laetrile, but the infringement of freedom in what amounts to a life and death question.

Phil Crane

Cancer, Dark, Years

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Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have...remained at an estimated 33%. Losses due to insects alone have nearly doubled, ...from 7% in the 1942-1951 period to about 13% in 1974.

Frances Moore Lappé

Dark, Loss, Age

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Today's market action is driven by the slower GDP growth rate. Despite oil being higher, I think the GDP kind of overruled everything and just makes the market feel better about what the Fed is going to do, or rather not do.

L'Wren Scott

Feel Better, Thinking, Oil

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I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur. Despite many great achievements in the science of radio and electronics, what we know today is far less than what we have still to learn.

David Sarnoff

Knowledge, Learning, Science

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