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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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• To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.

  Maxine Kumin

  Writing, Hatred, World

  Maxine Kumin (2000). “Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry”

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• I didn't know the odds were so stacked against me. I went for TV shows and never got them. But I kept glued to the pursuit. I was the biggest fool in town, but ultimately I was the biggest fool in town with a job.

  Julia Roberts

  Perseverance, Jobs, Tv Shows

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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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• 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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• Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is wishful thinking, so the challenge to entrepreneurs is telling what's the difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking to them as opposed to pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn't actually have merit, be very rigorous in your self analysis, certainly being extremely tenacious, and just work like hell. Put in 80-100 hours every week. All these things improves the odds of success

  Elon Musk

  Dream, Believe, Thinking

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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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• All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

  Richard Bach

  Adventure, Risk, Life Is Like

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• The value of free expression is perceived to be at odds with goals that were considered 'more important,' like inclusiveness, diversity, nondiscrimination, and tolerance.

  Greg Lukianoff

  Expression, Diversity, Goal

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• I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know itcan be done. I know the impossible can become possible.

  Marcia Wallace

  Optimism, Done, Earning

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• If you dont have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you wont reach them or will quit trying.

  Brett Hoebel

  Emotional, Accomplish Your Goals, Trying

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• The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Dumb, Challenges, Fields

  "Jerry Seinfeld, Online Force" by Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. May 27, 2015.

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• United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and
  split asunder.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Challenges, Splits

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Criticism, Genius, Poet

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• It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Integrity, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.197, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses.

  Kyle Maynard

  Challenges, Battle, Shy

  Kyle Maynard (2012). “No Excuses: The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling And in Life”, p.208, Regnery Publishing

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• No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety" - never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be - can you minimize your odds of error.

  Benjamin Graham

  Errors, Safety, Risk

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

  Kent Nerburn

  Mean, Embrace, Vindictive

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Calm Surrender: Walking the Path of Forgiveness”, p.130, New World Library

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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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• It's like a crapshoot in Las Vegas, except in Las Vegas the odds are with the house. As for the market, the odds are with you, because on average over the long run, the market has paid off.

  Harry Markowitz

  Running, Las Vegas, Average

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• Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.

  Burton Malkiel

  Gambling, Order, Years

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