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My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.

Yasmin Mogahed

Fashion, Men, Numbers

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In the final analysis, despite our diversity, there is only one type of vegan -- a person who is committed to and practices a reverence and respect for all life.

Joanne Stepaniak

Practice, Diversity, Finals

Joanne Stepaniak (2000). “Being Vegan”, McGraw Hill Professional

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It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action.

Zeena Schreck

Spiritual, Age, Quality

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The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.

Robert Higgs

Wisdom, Your Side, Government

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The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.

Dalai Lama

Buddhist, Equality, Race

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For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

Carl Sagan

Greatness, Failing, Fallibility

Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated

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Many successful people have fear, along with doubts and worries. The difference is that those who know how to succeed also know how to take action despite these worries and fears. You too can learn how to master fear, by understanding that fear is in our own minds, and therefore under our own control.

T. Harv Eker

Successful, Differences, People

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To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism

Eboo Patel

Heart, People, Pluralism

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I will light candles this Christmas, Candles of joy, despite all sadness, Candles of hope where despair keeps watch. Candles of courage where fear is ever present, Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days, Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens. Candles of love to inspire all my living, Candles that will burn all the year long.

Howard Thurman

Sadness, Light, Years

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Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first
international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the
adoption of the first human rights laws and to the creation of the
first human rights non-governmenta l organization. And yet despite
the efforts of the international community to combat this abhorrent
practice, it is still widely prevalent in all
its insidious forms, old and new.

Kofi Annan

Real, Rights, Law

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There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Love, Acceptance, Offering

Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.394, A&C Black

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Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Talking, Ideas, Leader

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While a little faith may bring your souls to heaven, a lot of faith--clinging to God despite your circumstances--will bring heaven to your soul

Skip Heitzig

Heaven, Soul, May

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God, despite my circumstances, I will find reasons to praise You.

Lysa TerKeurst

Praise, Reason, Circumstances

FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Feb 06, 2015

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It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.

Halldór Laxness

Old Saying, Stills, Knows

Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

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We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

Matt Ridley

Falling In Love, People, Complicated

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If everybody feels fear when approaching something totally new in life—yet so many are out there doing it despite the fear—then we must conclude that fear is not the problem.

Susan Jeffers

Problem, Feels, Ifs

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The masses will not vote for their own upliftment in a higher order of society. This has to be accomplished without their support and request, despite them and indeed against them. It is absurd to pivot your whole project, as does a conventional party, on the submission of change to the decision of those who so need to be changed. You might as well make the case for law and order conditional on the approval of the criminals.

Colin Jordan

Party, Order, Law

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Every time I fail, I assume I will be a stronger person for it. I keep on running figuratively and literally, despite a limp that gets more noticeable with each passing season, because for me there has always been a place to go and a terrible urgency to get there.

Joan Benoit

Running, Stronger, Places To Go

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What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?

Jane Addams

Race, Failing, Possibility

Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.85, University of Illinois Press

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Whatever your difficulties - a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness - you can always remember that you are free in every moment to set the compass of your heart to your highest intentions. In fact, the two things that you are always free to do - despite your circumstances - are to be present and to be willing to love.

Jack Kornfield

Heart, Loss, Two

Jack Kornfield (2014). “A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times”, p.59, Sounds True

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A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.

Aesop

Life, Disguise, Persons

Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin!

Swami Vivekananda

Blessed, Dust, Practice

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1354, Manonmani Publishers

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Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

Robert Kiyosaki

Jobs, Reality, Ideas

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Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

Armstrong Williams

Education, Baby, Children

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