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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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• Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; for an army routed, if hotly pursued, becomes panic-stricken, and can then be destroyed by half their number. The other rule is, never fight against heavy odds, if by any possible maneuvering you can hurl your own force on only a part, and that the weakest part, of your enemy and crush it. Such tactics will win every time, and a small army may thus destroy a large one in detail, and repeated victory will make it invincible.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Crush, Army, Fighting

  "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (Volume II)". Book edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, November 1884 - November 1887.

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• I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!

  Paul Taylor

  Nature, Want, Kind

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• O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face! To mount the scaffold! to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God!

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Struggle, Gun

  Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.51, Haskell House Pub Limited

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• Our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change. The deadly European heat wave of 2003, the fiery Russian heat wave of 2010 and catastrophic droughts in Texas and Oklahoma last year [2011] can each be attributed to climate change. The odds that natural variability created these extremes are minuscule, vanishingly small. To count on those odds would be like quitting your job and playing the lottery every morning to pay the bills.

  James Hansen

  Morning, Jobs, Past

  "NASA scientist links climate change, extreme weather", www.cnn.com. August 6, 2012.

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• There is no risk factor at all, the odds don't matter at all, because the odds of Law of Attraction are 100%.

  Esther Hicks

  Law Of Attraction, Risk, Matter

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• The artist and the multitude are natural enemies. They always will be, both ways. The artist is an enemy of the multitude, and the multitude is the enemy of the artist. And when the disguise comes off and they're both standing facing one another, they're just there at odds end.

  Robert Altman

  Art, Enemy, Way

  Robert Altman, David Sterritt (2000). “Robert Altman: Interviews”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• For our purposes, let’s say a goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don’t sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, it’s a system. If you’re waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it’s a goal.

  Scott Adams

  Running, Goal, Long

  Scott Adams (2013). “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life”, p.33, Penguin

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• Either philosophy reinforces communal beliefs, in which case it is pointless; or else it is at odds with those beliefs, in which case it is dangerous.

  Georges Canguilhem

  Philosophy, Belief, Cases

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• One of my missions is to get people to go, "Oh, she's really nice and I really like her, but what were the words she just said?!" I want your instincts to be at odds with your mind.

  Lucy Lawless

  Nice, People, Mind

  "SALEM: Lucy Lawless Talks Season 2, ASH VS. EVIL DEAD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2015.

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• I'm ready. I feel like I can't be beat. You have to feel like that being a fighter. I just feel like this is a bigger type of energy. I feel like I've beaten so many odds. I feel kind of invincible. It's going to be a good fight.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Fighting, Energy, Fighter

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• There is a great tradition of independent filmmaking in the U.S. that I absolutely respect. There's some wonderful stuff that comes out in this country against all the odds.

  Mike Leigh

  Country, Independent, Stuff

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wise, Smoking, Limits

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• Every child I know who overcame long odds and grew into a responsible adult can point to an adult who stepped into his or her life as a FRIEND, a MENTOR, and a GUIDE.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Children, Long, Mentor

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• What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. [...] This is early days in the festival, but Rust and Bone has to be a real contender for prizes, and, the odds will be shortening to vanishing point for Cotillard getting the best actress award.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Real, Awards, Stories

  "Cannes 2012: Rust and Bone – review". www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• It is impossible not to recognise the Long March as one of the great triumphs of men against odds and men against nature. While the Red Army was unquestionably in forced retreat, its toughened veterans reached their planned objective with moral and political will as strong as ever... Their conviction had helped turn what might have been a terrible defeat into an arrival in triumph.

  Edgar Snow

  Strong, Army, Men

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• Once a price move exceeds its median historical age, any method you use to analyze the market, whether it be fundamental or technical, is likely to be far more accurate. For example, if a chartist interprets a particular pattern as a top formation, but the market is only up 10% from the last low, the odds are high that the projection will be incorrect. However, if the market is up 25% to 30%, then the same type of formation should be given a great deal more weight.

  Victor Sperandeo

  Moving, Historical, Age

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• The more science learns, the clearer it is that although we are here, we shouldn't be. Once we begin considering the details of it all, the towering odds against our existence begin to become a bit unsettling. When we come to see the superlatively extreme precariousness of our existence, and begin to understand how by any accounting, we ought not to exist, what are we to think or feel? Our existence seems to be not merely a virtually impossible miracle but the most outrageous miracle conceivable, one that makes previously amazing miracles seem like almost nothing.

  Eric Metaxas

  Thinking, Miracle, Details

  Eric Metaxas (2014). “Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life”, p.54, Penguin

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• I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players. I used to know one of the world's leading mathematicians and whenever we played chess I had to give him the odds of a Queen to make matters more equal, and even then I always won.

  Harry Golombek

  Success, Queens, Player

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• When you have a powerful, long-term vision for something, even against all odds and adversity, you will continue to make progress and people will want to get on board. Why? Because everybody wants to be a part of something great.

  Robin Crow

  Powerful, Adversity, Long

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• Leadership is about taking charge and influencing others to follow your vision. It's about going against the odds and accepting responsibility for the outcomes along the way

  Robin Crow

  Responsibility, Vision, Outcomes

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• Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Beautiful, Brother, Struggle

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Practice, Long, Faces

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2012). “Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• 'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and a driver; would have to span all the genres and periods of jazz; would have to have run her own label; [would] possess a deep spirituality, with grace and a sense of humor; and would have to have succeeded against all odds. Who else? Mary Lou Williams.

  Dave Douglas

  Running, Artist, Player

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