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• I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.

  Paul Watson

  Fighting, Warrior, Way

  "Paul Watson: Sea Shepherd's stern 'warrior' defies Japanese whalers" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2010.

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• The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Giving Up, Commitment

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• At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds

  Michael Dorris

  Love, Loyalty, Grief

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• The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.

  Clark Gable

  Song, Men, Honor

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• When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Success, Crazy

  "U.S., China, Russia, Elon Musk: Entrepreneur's "insane" vision becomes reality". Interview with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. May 22, 2012.

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• We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

  Charles Bukowski

  Life, Laughing, Existential

  "The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture". Life Magazine, December 1988.

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• There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Fall, Fate, Contentment

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.186, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• America is an unlikely place - a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement, it's now your turn to help keep it this way.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Country, America

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• I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.

  Neil Armstrong

  Games, White, Space

  "Neil Armstrong's last interview: rare glimpse of man and moon mission" by Paul Gallagher, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

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• I’ve decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what’s right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Running, Powerful, Believe

  "Tammy Baldwin Announces Senate Run In Wisconsin" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

  Vikram Seth

  Heart, Evil, Needs

  Vikram Seth (1994). “Arion & the Dolphin: a libretto”, Not Avail

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• Society is at odds with itself.

  Clint Eastwood

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• Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

  Jon Meacham

  Party, White, House

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• But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think." "I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.

  Ann Brashares

  Girl, Wise, Thinking

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.227, Random House

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• She reached up and lay her hand on my cheek. "You have the sweetest face," she said, looking at me dreamily. "It's like the perfect kitchen." I fought not to smile. This was the delirium. She'd fade in and out of it before the profound exhaustion dragged her down into unconsciousness. If you see someone spouting nonsense to themselves in an alleyway in Tarbean, odds are they're not actually crazy, just a sweet-eater deranged by too much denner. "A kitchen?" "Yes," she said. "Everything matches and the sugar bowl is right where it should be.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sweet, Crazy, Hands

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• There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.

  Steven Erikson

  Struggle, Fall, Failing

  "Toll The Hounds". Book by Steven Erikson, June 30, 2008.

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• One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is among the many corrosive effects of having unjust laws: They tempt peaceful and (otherwise) honest people to lie so as to avoid being punished for behavior that is ethically blameless.

  Sam Harris

  Lying, Law, Numbers

  Sam Harris (2013). “Lying”, p.33, Four Elephants Press

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• Right now, holding you, I feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Together, Shots, Feels

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “Silence”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to fight to climb out of. Or it can trigger an epic mania to overcome the odds and transform failure into success. Say you swing as high as the chains will take you because you seek the thrill of flight, and on the up- kick, you lose your seat. Injury is likely. But if you worry about falling down, and never chance "up," the sky will remain forever out of reach.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Couple, Disappointment, Fall

  Ellen Hopkins (2011). “Perfect”, p.397, Simon and Schuster

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• So Haymitch, what do you think of the games have one hundred percent more competitors than usual?” asks Caesar. Haymitch shrugs. “I don’t see that it makes that much difference. They’ll still be one hundred percent as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stupid, Thinking, Games

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• So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.

  Sue Grafton

  Stars, Memories, Dark

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• Bet you ten bucks we make it." What are the odds? she thought, and realized with sudden, blinding clarity that she wouldn't take the other side of that bet, that only a loser would bet against them. This is really it, she thought, amazed. This is really forever. I believe in this. "Min?" he said, and she kissed him, putting all her heart into it. "No bet," she said against his mouth. "Your odds are too good." "Our odds are too good

  Jennifer Crusie

  Believe, Heart, Forever

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• C’mon, friend. It’s two on one. You sure don’t look like you’re up to those odds. (Stranger) You can’t be talking to me. I don’t have prokas for friends. And I assure you I could gut you both before your stench had time to catch up to your fall. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fall, Talking, Two

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• You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila swooned inside. She tried to read his face but was met by a look that was indecipherable: the cheerful, cretinous grin at odds with the narrow, half desperate look in his eyes. A clever look, calculated to fall precisely at the midpoint between mockery and sincerity

  Khaled Hosseini

  Girl, Sexy, Clever

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.278, A&C Black

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• It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the teeth of the most terrifying odds achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity You come from a long line of great poets some of the greatest poets since Homer. One of them said "The very time I thought I was lost My dungeon shook and my chains fell off." You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free. God bless you James and Godspeed.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Men, Years

  "A Letter to My Nephew" by James Baldwin, progressive.org. January 1, 1962.

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