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• You can be the one - in - a - million. Don’t be discouraged by the odds to Succeed.

  David Beckham

  Succeed, Discouraged, One In A Million

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• There will be times when you will be frightened and discouraged. You may feel that you are defeated. The odds of obtaining victory may appear overwhelming. At times you may feel like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember-David did win!

  Thomas S. Monson

  Life, Fighting, Winning

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• The story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the face of great odds and difficulties.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Struggle, Achievement, Faces

  "Pakistan vote the first step on a long road" by Robert Menendez, www.cnn.com. May 13, 2013.

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• Every successful person in life began by pursuing a passion, usually against all odds.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Passion, Successful, Persons

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 03, 2012

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• Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Two, Limits, Ecology

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• From the first moment a woman dared to speak that hope - dared to believe that the American Dream was meant for her too - ordinary women have taken on extraordinary odds to give their daughters the chance for something else; for a life more equal, more free, and filled with more opportunity than they ever had. In so many ways we have succeeded, but in so many areas we have much work left to do.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Daughter, Freedom

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• If the election of the Father is not universal and the regeneration of the Holy Spirit is not universal, why would the atonement of the Son be universal? That would put the persons of the Trinity completely at odds with one another-but the triune God is completely unified.

  Shai Linne

  Father, Son, Spirit

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• What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise of a few individuals, that is brave and practical; but as the enterprise of the State, it is cowardice and imbecility. What odds where we squat, or bow much ground we cover? It is not the soil that we would make free, but men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Men, Brave

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.135, David M Gross

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• Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Volunteer, Heroism

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• Clearly, you can think back and see that a character has had enormous odds stacked against him and has to overcome them. It's usually a guy, I'm afraid. But then you're setting up a new movie you have amnesia about these meetings, when you've discussed it more analytically.

  Danny Boyle

  Character, Thinking, Guy

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to be done. Today we are called once more — and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith — that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Our Generation, People

  Official Announcement of Candidacy for US President, Delivered 10 February 2007, Springfield, Illinois

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• The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.

  John Eldredge

  Life, Wish, Firsts

  John Eldredge (2007). “Desire: The Journey We Must Take to Find the Life God Offers”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.

  Rob Bell

  Real, Community, Honest

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• As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.

  Richard Linklater

  Government, Ego, Opinion

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.

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• When an office-holder facing a multi-count indictment says that he has decided to spend more time with his family, the proper response is a horse-laugh. When an accused politician explains that a charge of corruption is 'really' an attack on his or her race, religion, ethnic background or gender, the odds that something felonious happened jumps.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Horse, Race, Laughing

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• There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

  Bobby Fischer

  Player, Knights, Giving

  "Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, harpers.org. January 1962.

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• In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.

  John Ensign

  Wall, Business, Vegas

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• Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.

  Alexander Elder

  Business, Challenges, Getting High

  Alexander Elder (2002). “Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons

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• Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.

  Kim Harrison

  Smart, People, Adults

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• As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.

  Arlen Specter

  Philosophy, Party, Lines

  Speech on Joining Democratic Party, www.foxnews.com. April 28, 2009.

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• Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.

  Nikola Tesla

  Secret, Lightning, Might

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• What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

  Horace

  Men, Doe, Acres

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book I, satire i, line 48, c. 35 BC.

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• I hold no brief for Communists, but I believe in and will defend their right to act independently within the law. I question whether members of the committee are interested in defending our form of government or whether they are attempting to suppress political opinion at odds with their own.

  Gregory Peck

  Believe, Political Opinions, Government

  "Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life". Book by Lynn Haney, p. 167, 2003.

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• The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and capsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Attitude, Greatness, People

  "The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 21), 1951.

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• I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of loss apparent to anyone with a knowledge of arithmetic, the addict, failing time and again, is convinced he yet is graced with the power to contravene natural laws. The roulette addict, when he invariably comes to grief, does not examine either the nature of roulette, or of his delusion, but retires to develop a new system, and to scheme for more funds.

  David Mamet

  Grief, Loss, Law

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