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• Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.

  Pete Wentz

  Motivational, Mean, Race

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• If youre going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like Purple Rain and Thriller and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.

  Dave Sitek

  Rain, Purple, Albums

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• There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

  Ellis Peters

  Hate, Reason, Hated

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.3071, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• TEF is predicated on logic, a simple wager that every human faces:
  If a reasoning human being loves and values life, they will want to live as long as possible-the desire to be immortal. Nevertheless, it's impossible to know if they're going to be immortal once they die. To do nothing doesn't help the odds of attaining immortality-since it seems evident that everyone will die someday and possibly cease to exist. To try to do something scientifically constructive towards ensuring immortality beforehand is the most logical conclusion.

  Zoltan Istvan

  Simple, Long, Desire

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• Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Art, Struggle, Portraits

  Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”

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• If you don’t believe in your product, or if you’re not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work.

  Jay Conrad Levinson

  Believe, Marketing, Way

  Jay Conrad Levinson, Seth Godin (1994). “The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The final cover for Heroes Are My Weakness feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Giving Up, Hero, Islands

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• Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.

  George McGovern

  Christian, Heritage, American Politics

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• The more survival skills an individual has that have been practiced physically and otherwise, the better odds they have for those skills coming to the forefront during a stressful emergency.

  Cody Lundin

  Skills, Survival, Emergencies

  Cody Lundin (2011). “98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

  Eric Ries

  Opposites, People, Vision

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• Don’t be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God’s commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win.

  David B. Haight

  Fighting, Helping Others, Winning

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• It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

  Alison Bechdel

  Sex, Expression, Defining

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.

  Robert Greene

  Giving, Facts, Helping

  Robert Greene (2014). “The Concise Mastery”, p.43, Profile Books

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• Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Loyalty, People, Together

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• I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.

  Joe Satriani

  Music, Men, Guy

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• For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Heart, Men, Rivers

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• In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.

  Theodore Roethke

  Girl, Writing, Boys

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.89, Copper Canyon Press

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• Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mean

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• If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.

  Tim Maleeny

  Writing, People, Rejection

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• The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked to death than the individual who subjects himself to battle shorn of any protection but his own skill, his own belief in himself and in his wingman. Righteousness is necessary for one's peace of mind, perhaps, but it is a poor substitute for agility . . . and a resolution to meet the enemy under any conditions and against any odds.

  Robert S. Johnson

  Men, Skills, Mind

  Robert S. Johnson, Martin Caidin “Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace”, Lulu.com

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• Life for the majority of the population.
  Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds.
  Culminating in a cheap funeral.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Struggle, Funeral, Majority

  Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a multi-billion-dollar international corporation and an unresponsive government), using the power of the people in our democratic system.

  Lois Gibbs

  Winning, Government, Blue

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• I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak to people, so I must desert that ivory tower. To do this, I am a journalist - a photojournalist. But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist, who is a recorder of facts, and the artist, who is often necessarily at odds with the facts. My principle concern is for honesty, above all honesty with myself.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Honesty, Attitude, Artist

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• The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.

  Yoko Ono

  Miracle, Making Love, Wonder

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• You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

  Roger Martin

  Choices, Risk, Needs

  "The Big Lie of Strategic Planning". Article by Roger Martin, hbr.org. January - February 2014.

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