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• Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.

  Greg Bear

  Vacation, Sight, Love Coming Back

  "Why I love Mars" by Greg Bear, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2012.

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• Despite what I do for a living, I am very insecure about my body.

  Erin Andrews

  Insecure, Body

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• Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

  Charles Bass

  Children, Effort, Reuniting

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• It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Mother, Males, Study

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Nation building is our central task, both in Afghanistan and in Iraq. And states, nations can't just be built with military power. Despite all difficulties, it's very inspiring to see how the Kurds, the Arab Sunnis and the Shiites are coming together here, how they're jointly defining the basis on which their state is to be built, the political course this state will pursue and who is to receive which cabinet positions.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Military, Iraq, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools.

  Michelle Rhee

  School, Kids, Goal

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am who I am despite what America has put before me. I am who I am despite the obstacles that we have all faced based upon race and based upon social and spiritual humiliation.

  Harry Belafonte

  Spiritual, Who I Am, America

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 30, 2011.

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• If this universe is the House of God, then I must say it is quite a dark house despite several hundred billion suns!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, House, Sun

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• Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.

  Paul Tillich

  Facts, Accepted, Accepting

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• Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.

  Cindy Gallop

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Missing

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• Perhaps 'Big Bang' fans feel so protective of the show because it is, despite being a hit show on a big network, something of a word-of-mouth phenomenon.

  Johnny Galecki

  Bangs, Fans, Mouths

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• I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

  Carla Bruni

  Mother, Eight, Years

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• Despite of all my Sunday learnin', toward the bad I kept turning.

  Merle Haggard

  Sunday, Evil

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• All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Weather, Meteorology

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• They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Stars, Healthy, Roles

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. June 12, 2002.

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• I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically, there is a desire to get at that person. But I think the stands I have taken are totally consistent with a person who is looking at things realistically, factually.

  Eric Holder

  Taken, Thinking, Views

  "Holder highlight reel: Attorney general’s most memorable moments, clashes", www.foxnews.com. September 25, 2014.

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• Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators - a majority - voted in favor of the bill. Despite President Obama's actively lobbying against the bill, we still won the support of 11 Democrats.

  John Hoeven

  Strong, Support, President

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• I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.

  Famke Janssen

  Illegal Things, Two, People

  "Famke Janssen and Bringing Up Bobby". Interview with Nicki Richesin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 19, 2012.

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• I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

  Rachel Johnson

  Running, Men, Boards

  "Rachel Johnson: 'The "Boris's sister" thing pisses me off'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2012.

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• Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Dream, Home, Motherhood

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• All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Race, Differences, Rays

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• In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.

  Delia Ephron

  Nature, Children, Age Difference

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• You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay If I were a fairy godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an instant And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Heart, Giving

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• Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are.

  Robert Breault

  Believe, Usa, Mexico

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• I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

  Robert Kagan

  Taken, Optimistic, Russia

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