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• Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Want, Sometimes, Happens

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Reality, People, Different

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• Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.

  Steven Pressfield

  Attitude, Rain, Dark

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• Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Pain, Compassion, Want

  Andrew Sean Greer (2007). “The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel”, p.120, Macmillan

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• Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.

  Karl Marx

  Struggle, Book, Science

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

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• The money problem facing the country from 1789 to 1896 existed because Congress never exercised is authority to "coin money or regulate the value thereof" - but rather delegated that authority, sometimes by charter and sometimes by default, to the banking system. This despite the provision in the Constitution that charged Congress with the power to 'coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standards of weight and Measures.'

  William Jennings Bryan

  Country, Banking, Coins

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• I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

  Thandie Newton

  Baby, Skins, Drawbacks

  "What I see in the mirror" by Thandie Newton, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2011.

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• To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day by day job that requires patience and discipline. It is the only way to make it. . . . All I know is that despite the fact that I am one of the people who benefit from a capitalist society, I find that any system which exploits other people cannot and should not exist.

  Jane Fonda

  Jobs, People, Discipline

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• Despite the fact that I have a good-size pair of breasts... in Lois & Clark, I have the opportunity to show the world they're not my only attribute.

  Teri Hatcher

  Opportunity, World, Pairs

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• People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy

  James Lafferty

  Nice, Character, People

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• Christoph Waltz is stunning, an insanely nice guy. He is not only a ridiculously good actor, he’s also funny, helpful & a good colleague. I like his work ethic. I mean, the guy has won an Oscar and despite that he is receptive, open-minded & not the least bit snooty. Reese Witherspoon is the same. It may be the nicest cast that I have worked with yet.

  Robert Pattinson

  Nice, Mean, Work Ethic

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• For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.

  Courtney Love

  Years, Taste, Impeccable

  "Courtney Love: ‘I’d Like to Be Trusted Again.’" by Eric Wilson, www.nytimes.com. November 5, 2010.

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• Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films.

  Ken Bates

  Soccer, Football, Rambo

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• The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's CO2 is emitted by, 68% of the world's GDP is produced in, and 89% of the world's population live in countries that are not handcuffed by Kyoto's restrictions. Like fascism and communism, Kyotoism is an attack on basic human freedoms behind a smokescreen of propaganda. Like those ideologies of human hatred, it will be exposed and defeated.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Country, Kyoto, Gdp

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• Nico di Angelo came into Olympus to a hero's welcome, his father right behind him, despite the fact that Hades was only supposed to visit Olympus in winter solstice. The God of the dead looked stunned when his relatives clapped him on the back. I doubt he'd ever got such an enthusiastic welcome before.

  Rick Riordan

  Father, Hero, Winter

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• My hero is me. Why? Because I was a poor little kid who was told, `Hey stupid, can`t you speak English?` Now all those people work for me. Despite whatever circumstances I came across, I was always able to rise to the top and there`s only one way to do that - by being selfish, but also by believing in yourself. Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, `Do or do not. There is no try.

  Gene Simmons

  Stars, War, Stupid

  "This much I know" by Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2004.

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• Good men sometimes make mistakes. A man of integrity will honestly face and correct his mistakes, and that is an example we can respect. Sometimes men try but fail. Not all worthy objectives are realized despite one’s honest and best efforts. True manhood is not always measured by the fruits of one’s labors but by the labors themselves–by one’s striving.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Mistake, Integrity, Men

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• Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children.

  Noah Lukeman

  New York, Children, Black

  Noah Lukeman (2010). “The First Five Pages: A Writer'S Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection P”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Teacher, Art, Mind

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• Despite what you hear and say there will always be that one voice that will always be true to you.

  Tony DiTerlizzi

  Voice, Being True

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• Despite what The Wall Street Journal says, our awards are the best-kept secret in America, with the possible exception of what George W. Bush did in the '70s.

  Billy Crystal

  Wall, Awards, Best Kept Secrets

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• The idea of polytheism is grounded in the view that reality (divine or otherwise) is multiple and diverse... Polytheism has allowed a multitude of distinct groups to exist more or less in harmony, despite great divergence in beliefs and practices.

  Margot Adler

  Reality, Views, Practice

  Margot Adler (2006). “Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America”, p.36, Penguin

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• Despite what I feel for Peeta, this is when I accept deep down that he'll never come back to me. Or i'll never go back to him. I'll die for my trouble. And he'll die insane and hating me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hate, Insane, Trouble

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.198, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's my uniform. Everyone in my company wears it." "It's hideous." Rose felt her hackles rise. The neon green uniform was hideous, but she didn't appreciate him pointing it out. She opened her mouth. "Yet despite it, you look lovely," he said. "Flattery will get you nowhere," she told him. "It's not flattery," he said coldly. "Flattery requires exaggeration. I'm merely stating a fact. You're a beautiful woman wearing an ugly sack of unnatural color.

  Ilona Andrews

  Beautiful, Color, Rose

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• The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a smattering of color amongst the sea of traditional black. Even the light rain cannot push it down into the realms of despair. It rests instead in a space of thoughtful melancholy.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Rain, Thoughtful, Light

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