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Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear.

James Neil Hollingworth

Courage, Acting, Absence

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An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.

Criss Jami

Encouragement, Moving, Ambition

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.123, Criss Jami

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In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

Leo Tolstoy

Art, Book, Mountain

"What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite?

Lonnie Donegan

Mother, Doe, Unanswered Questions

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From my observations, it would seem that the core message of most major religions is right, just and pure. For this reason I can not help but conclude that evil acts committed by religious people are committed not because of their religion, but in spite of it.

Derek R. Audette

Life, Religious, People

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The prayer of faith is a prayer willing to believe and prevail for God's answer in a situation that is utterly impossible. Regardless of the difficulty of the situation, you require no external confirmation but believe God in spite of appearance. Your eyes are on God, not on the situation.

Wesley L Duewel

Prayer, Believe, Eye

Wesley L. Duewel (1990). “Mighty Prevailing Prayer”, p.101, Zondervan

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Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.

John Henry Newman

Teacher, Order, Errors

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To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.

Pierre Daninos

Men, Soul, Gentleman

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...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.

Criss Jami

Leadership, Men, Light

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We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

William Shakespeare

Men, Envy, Age

William Shakespeare (1812). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.22

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Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Quality, Use, Too Much

"Reflections on Various Subjects". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, www.gutenberg.org. 1678.

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Every day is a fresh beginning; Listen my soul, to the glad refrain, And in spite of old sorrow and possible pain, Take heart with the day and begin again.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

Pain, Heart, Soul

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You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on without us, or in spite of us.

Charlton Laird

Book, Writing, Thinking

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You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

Frank Langella

Acting, Neurosis

"Frank Langella - An Actor Matured". Interview with Barbara Isenberg, www.deseretnews.com. June 15, 1993.

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If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

Ovid

Self Love, Understanding, Way

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Each one of us must ask how we contribute to the racist climate that seems only to grow stronger in spite of our best efforts at legislative and social remedies. Whether we are victims of racism or its perpetrators, we must begin on our knees.

Wilton Daniel Gregory

Racism, Effort, Stronger

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In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

Stephen Gardiner

Cities, House, Athens

Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.

Leon Jouhaux

Mother, Art, School

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However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.

Toshihiko Fukui

Zero, Perception, Should

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In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

Jim Balsillie

Buying In, America, Noise

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Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has brilliantly exposed the exaggerated claims and deceptions that have persisted in standard textbook discussions of biological origins for many decades, in spite of contrary evidence. these claims have been so often repeated that they seem unassailable - that is, until one reads Wells's book.

Dean H. Kenyon

Book, Icons, Community

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A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.

Alberto Moravia

Belief

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With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.

Paul Gauguin

Thinking, Practice, Technique

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In spite of the frightful pogroms which took place, first in Poland and then in unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which cost the lives of thousands of Jews, the Jewish people considered the post-war period as a messianic era. Israel, during those years, 1919-1920, rejoiced in Eastern and Southern Europe, in Northern and Southern Africa, and above all in America.

Denis Fahey

Fashion, War, Israel

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Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities.

Todd McFarlane

Artist, People, Different

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