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• Donald Trump became seen as a credible businessperson with a real track record, even though that was at odds with reality.

  Timothy L. O'Brien

  Real, Track, Records

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Being at odds with policies is nothing new to me.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Policy, Nothing New

  Source: inthesetimes.com

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• Speaking for me, I think the odds of bankrupting Exxon are pretty small, but I think the odds of politically bankrupting them are higher. I think if we can use this as a vehicle to get out the analysis that these guys have 3-5 times as much carbon in the ground as the most conservative government thinks would be safe to burn, then that politically stigmatises them, makes them into the rogue industry that they are.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Government, Guy

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• If you assume any rate of improvement at all then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we are in base reality would be one in billions.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Reality, Games, Would Be

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell you, in case you don't know it, that you got a new - you got a new generation of black people in this country, who don't care anything whatsoever about odds. They don't want to hear you old Uncle Tom handkerchief heads talking about the odds.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Uncles, Talking

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the white man runs around here with a doctrine that Mr. Muhammad is advocating the violence when he is actually telling Negroes to defend themselves against violent people.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Men, White Man

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

  Mark Twain

  Prayer, Waiting, Different

  Mark Twain (2010). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.8, Collector's Library

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• On the question of opposition, I think there are - when you want to send a signal if you're on the Democratic side that this is a very right wing cabinet at odds with so much of what [Donald] Trump said. And it's also going to be fascinating to see if your Republican Party in the congress actually goes along with those aspects of the Trump plan that are designed to raise wages.

  E. J. Dionne

  Party, Thinking, Wings

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Best Work

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• I usually try not to think about actors while writing, because the odds of those stars aligning and you getting those specific people are so rare.

  Diablo Cody

  Stars, Writing, Thinking

  "Diablo Cody on New Movie 'Ricki and the Flash,' Secret Netflix Projects, and Defying the Suburbs". Interview with Jen Oritz, www.marieclaire.com. July 20, 2015.

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• You are not obligated to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a way to conquer the odds, to be stronger or transform yourself into some better version of yourself. The pain you are feeling (whatever the degree) may be a reminder that things are not as they should be.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Pain, Feelings, Stronger

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

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• I quite like that jeopardy, those up-against-the-wall odds. I don't like it when it's over-comfortable, too easy, something that can be done in two or three weeks. I like a challenge.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Wall, Two, Challenges

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• Don't let fear stop you. Don't give up because you are paralyzed by insecurity or overwhelmed by the odds, because in giving up, you give up hope. Understand that failure is a process in life, that only in trying can you enrich yourself and have the possibility of moving forward. The greatest obstacle in life is fear and giving up because of it.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Giving Up, Moving, Don't Give Up

  Source: progressive.org

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• The biggest piece of advice that I give young comedians is: If it's your goal to get where I'm at, go do something else. Because you'll never get here. Never. The odds are so bad. Because not only do you have to be a really, really strong comedian but you also have to be lucky. And most people don't get that combination.

  Ron White

  Strong, People, Giving

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• The tough decisions that a president has to make in the Oval Office are in no way related to the capability of a person to do well on television. On the other hand, the capability of a person to project favorably on television enhances that person's odds of being elected so he can serve in the Oval Office. So you can't ignore the talents, one, to be very effective on television, and on the other hand, to be very effective as an operating president.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Hands, Office, Decision

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Before the first atomic bomb test, scientists took the time to calculate whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere and incinerate us all. The risk was low and the test went off, but Rees wonders what the odds would have had to be to discourage the bomb makers.

  Dennis Overbye

  Funny, Science, Technology

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• And if ten percent of men are gay and twenty percent of men are Chinese, what are the odds that a men chosen at random spends his free time and mealtime while on his knees.

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Gay

  Song: New Math, Album: Bo Burnham

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• "Oppression" or "systems of oppression" operate as a shorthand terms in much writing and speaking so that we do not have to list all these systems of meaning and control each time (i.e. racism, ableism, xenophobia, etc.). I needed a term like that, but "oppression" implies a kind of top-down understanding of power that is at odds with the Foucaultian model I rely on in my work.

  Dean Spade

  Xenophobia, Writing, Top Down

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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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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• 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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• If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy.

  Julianne Moore

  Directors, Able, Ifs

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 28, 2008.

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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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• I get more inspired by seeing everyday people succeed against the odds than anything else in life.

  Suze Orman

  People, Everyday, Succeed

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• Please don't make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea. You don't have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things... science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind's incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.

  Tim Minchin

  Beautiful, Art, Stupid

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• The bad player is the one who tries to calculate and play with the odds, as if his game, his life, were one of a large number of games. To do so is at best to succumb to another necessity, the necessity of large numbers. The good player does not fool himself, and accepts that there is exactly one chance, which produces by chance the necessity and even the purpose that he experiences.

  Ian Hacking

  Player, Games, Numbers

  Ian Hacking (1990). “The Taming of Chance”, p.148, Cambridge University Press

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