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• One of the more positive aspects of our existence in Oceania is that truth is flexible and negotiable, despite attempts by some of us to impose political, religious, and other forms of absolutionism. Versions of truth may be accepted for particular purposes and moments, only to be reversed when circumstances demand other versions; and we often accede to things just to stop being bombarded, and then go ahead and do what we want to do anyway.

  Epeli Hau'ofa

  Religious, Bombarded By, Political

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• This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.

  Desmond Tutu

  Lying, Mean, People

  "No Future Without Forgiveness". Book by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

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• The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the differences of language, customs and social structure we are able to communicate life experience from one whole nation to another, to communicate a difficult national experience many decades long which the second of the two has never experienced.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Differences, Two

  "Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Art —for Man's Sake: I", www.nytimes.com. September 30, 1972.

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• Over the long term, despite significant drops from time to time, stocks (especially an intelligently selected stock portfolio) will be one of your best investment options. The trick is to GET to the long term. Think in terms of 5 years, 10 years and longer. Do your planning and asset allocation ahead of time. Choose a portion of your assets to invest in the stock market - and stick with it! Yes, the bad times will come, but over the truly long term, the good times will win out - and I hope the lessons from 2008 will help get you there to enjoy them.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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• Comes now a smiling New-Born Year To fill to-day with goodly cheer— An infant hale and lusty. Upon our door-sill he is left By Daddy Time, of clothes bereft Despite the season gusty. If he be Churl or doughty Knight, A Son of Darkness or of Light No man can tell, God bless him! But be he base or glorious Time puts it wholly up to us To dress him!

  John Kendrick Bangs

  New Year, Cheer, Son

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• When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside of us.

  Dan Millman

  Integrity, Inspiration, Acting

  Dan Millman (1995). “The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose”, p.378, H J Kramer

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• There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.

  Peter Ustinov

  Jesus, Machines, Television

  "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" edited by Robert Andrews, (p. 742), 1993.

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• Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Names, Important, Liberty

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• It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.

  Max Lerner

  Men, World, Destruction

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• The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Female, Buttocks

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.

  Katherine Marsh

  Happy Life, Past, Order

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• My kids are in front of the computer 247 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.

  Kajol

  Kids, Information, Too Much

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• The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet consumer demands at lowest cost, or else be driven from the market. It is a profit-and-loss system. Naturally, existing businesses generally prefer to keep out competitors in other ways. That is why the business community, despite its rhetoric, has so often been a major enemy of truly free enterprise.

  Milton Friedman

  Business, Loss, Community

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• It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.

  William Manchester

  Gleam, Public Speaking, Macarthur

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• Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.

  Derek Bok

  Differences, Choices, Different

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• It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

  Max Weber

  Men, Numbers, Outsiders

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.99, Routledge

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• I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Laughter, Pain, World

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)”, p.193, Oxford University Press

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• We have been flooded with postal cards from all over the United States and several parallel universes. Just a quick glance though these cards is enough to remind you why this great nation, despite all the talk of decline, still leads the world in tranquilizer consumption.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, America

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.190, Crown Archetype

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• Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an enormous open sewer.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.143, Ballantine Books

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• Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about

  Piero Scaruffi

  Inspirational, Book, Writing

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• Right now our blog on the presence of tape at EMC World is seeing twice as much traffic as all the other EMC World related content. Why? Many of our readers are coming to the obvious conclusion that tape, despite the negative marketing, is still an optimal way to protect and archive their information.

  George Arthur Crump

  Marketing, Archives, Negative

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• Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed towards our species goal: Space Migration, which in turn offers the only way to re-attain individual freedom of space-time and the small-group social structures which obviously best suit our nervous systems. It is another paradox of neuro-genetics that only in space habitats can humanity return to the village life and pastoral style for which we all long.

  Timothy Leary

  Moon, Village Life, Space

  Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, George A. Koopman (1988). “Neuropolitique”, New Falcon Publications

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• Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Wind, Advancement, Blame

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• The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite the philosophical disagreements it may have with the nature of particular regimes. It must seek pragmatic ways to help people without necessarily embracing their governments. It should recognize that diplomatic relations are merely practical conveniences and not measures of moral judgment.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Philosophical, Government, People

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• Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.

  Will Self

  Real, Dying, Disease

  "Will Self: The trouble with my blood" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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