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• He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

  Richelle Mead

  People, Perfect, Sydney Sage

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.219, Penguin

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• Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

  Napoleon Hill

  Reality, Names, Dumb

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of self-inflicted wounding, this pain acts as the body's own defense mechanism to stop one from proceeding in the effort at physical injury. If a person proceeds despite the pain, that means that he or she is motivated by something stronger than the pain, something that makes him or her capable of ignoring or enduring it.

  Steven Levenkron

  Pain, Mean, Self

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• I you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. Look a little closer, stare a little longer. Because there is something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit. You built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself, you signed it THEY WERE WRONG.

  Shane Koyczan

  Beautiful, Heart, Mirrors

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• Clockwork Prince pg. 298 "Though rather despite myself, I thought him a pretty bit of poison to start with, but I have come around. There is a soul under all that bravado. And he is really alive, one of the most alive people I have ever met. When he feels something, it is as bright and sharp as lightning.

  Cassandra Clare

  People, Soul, Lightning

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• Today, despite all of the gains we have made, neither men nor women have real choice. Until women have supportive employers and colleagues as well as partners who share family responsibilities, they don't have real choice. And until men are fully respected for contributing inside the home, they don't have real choice either.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Real, Home, Responsibility

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.169, Knopf

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• Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency for that event to occur. The larger, more significant, or more energetic the event, the more it tends to remain as it originally happened, despite any interference." I frowned. "There's...a law of conservation of history?

  Jim Butcher

  Strong, Law, Quality

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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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• Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Baseball, Serious, Reform

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• Marilyn always dreamt of being an actress. She didn't, by the way, dream of being just a star. She dreamt of being an actress. And she had always lived somehow with that dream. And that is why, despite the fact that she became one of the most unusual and outstanding stars of all time, she herself was never satisfied. When she came to New York, she began to perceive the possibilities of really accomplishing her dream, of being an actress.

  Lee Strasberg

  Dream, New York, Stars

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• I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that's been thrown at them.

  Thom Yorke

  Strong, Thinking, Government

  "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

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• They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Space, Flying, Argument

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• Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Adversity, Men, Despair

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity”, p.20, Kube Publishing Ltd

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• Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

  Luis Bunuel

  Years, Horror, Newspapers

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.228, Random House

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• Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America.

  Harry Reid

  Horror Stories, America, News

  "Harry Reid Takes to the Senate Floor to Tell You the ‘Truth’ About All Those Obamacare ‘Horror Stories’". Harry Reid's speech on the floor of the Senate in Washington, D.C., www.theblaze.com. February 26, 2014.

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• Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Cutting, Agency, Hands

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• Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and infuriatingly obstructionist in her career habits. Madonna is manic, perfectionist, workaholic. Monroe abused alcohol and drugs, while Madonna shuns them. Monroe had a tentative, melting, dreamy solipsism; Madonna has Judy Holliday's wisecracking smart mouth and Joan Crawford's steel will and bossy, circus master managerial competence.

  Camille Paglia

  Depression, Smart, Careers

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• Women are the more important members of relationships. Women are the survivors, the nurturers and the bosses, despite men pretending it's a male dominated society.

  Ray Martin

  Women, Boss, Important

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• Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.

  Walter Scott

  Home, Heart, Men

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.42

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• Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

  William Blake

  Love, Loss, Self

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Clod and the Pebble'

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• My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

  Sarah Polley

  Mom, Cancer, Thinking

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• Let no-one define how you see yourself...save God alone. See yourself through His eyes and His strength, and you'll see who you can be despite being who you are. But see yourself through your own eyes, and you'll be left to question, and to doubt, subject to the whims and wishes of others who will not have your best at heart.

  Tamera Alexander

  Religious, Heart, Eye

  Tamera Alexander (2011). “A Lasting Impression (A Belmont Mansion Novel Book #1)”, p.417, Baker Books

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• What's curious about the left's current obsession with Timothy McVeigh is that it proves that - despite a frantic search for 15 years - liberals have come across no better evidence of burgeoning "right-wing extremist" violence than a drug-taking, self-described "agnostic" who was thrown out of the Michigan Militia and who proclaimed, "Science is my religion." That sounds more like Bill Maher than Rush Limbaugh.

  Ann Coulter

  Self, Years, Wings

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• The principal sponsors of the terrorists are not religious fanatics. "Palestine's Yasser Arafat, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and Syria's Assad family have made themselves the icons of Islamism despite the fact that they are well-known atheists who live un-Muslim lives and have persecuted unto death the Muslim movements in their countries."

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Country, Religious, Atheist

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• We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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