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• Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.

  Peter Farb

  Change, Doe, Language

  PETER FARB (1973). “WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK”

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• Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

  Peter Farb

  School, Way, Taught

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State”

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• First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.

  John S. Watson

  Oil, Energy, Pay

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2011.

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• In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability to act, still, despite the years of analyzing and re-analyzing what it does to subsequent generations. We still find a massive inability to step in and step up to the plate, when genocide is happening as we speak.

  Stephen Daldry

  War, Issues, Years

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• France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.

  Pierre Laval

  Country, Fate, Past

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• The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that.

  Christopher Moore

  Jobs, Dirty, Woven

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• We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

  Seneca the Younger

  Errors, Long, Suffering

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 871-82, Of Benefits, Book V, Chapter XXV, Epigram 67, 1922.

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• You've been so long in the rain, you feel like a dirty dish rag. But despite the misery of your water soaked body, you look around to see verdant leaves dripping with water. The air entering your lungs smells vibrantly clean. To experience adventure, you must be willing to be uncomfortable at times and enjoy the loneliness by being happy with your own singing. A song pops out of your mouth... "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was fine..."

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Song, Loneliness, Rain

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• The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.

  Christiane Northrup

  Healing, Diagnosis, Patient

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• Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.

  Earl A Grollman

  Courage, Pain, Affirmation

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• ... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to believe in anything despite the complete lack of evidence is, in fact, irrational.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

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• The military doesn't teach rifle marksmanship. It teaches equipment familiarity. Despite what the officer corps thinks, learning to shoot a rifle is not like learning to drive a car. Instead, it is like learning to play the violin.... The equipment familiarity learning curve comes up quick, but then the rifle marksmanship continuation of the curve rises very slowly....by shooting one careful shot at a time, carefully inspecting the result (and the cause).

  Daryl Davis

  Military, Gun, Thinking

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• We made it. Despite the fear and predictions of doom. We made it. Even though there were days when we were tired and there were days when we forgot who we were. We made it. And we must thank the stars for this. And the birds for their beautiful songs. And the strangers who were careful to smile. We made it.

  Ron Atchison

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Song

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• For 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a huge increase in technology and productivity. And what we have seen during that period is a massive transfer of trillions of dollars from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent of America

  Lindsey Graham

  Technology, Years, Class

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

  Ivan Illich

  Education, Teaching, School

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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• Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.

  Claude Monet

  Sleep, Pigs, Devil

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Despite his infirmities, Strom Thurmond showed up to work every day and did not miss a Senate vote in his final year, though no one is sure if a shouted 'Bingo!' counted as a yea or a nay.

  Jon Stewart

  Years, Missing, Finals

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• The $50 note trick - ask who wants it even after stomping on it - moral is, no matter what we do to it it is still worth $50. We as human beings never lose our value either despite feeling down, flat or worthless at times.

  John C. Maxwell

  Feeling Down, Feelings, Want

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• Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

  Richard Lugar

  Fate, Russia, People

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• When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Iran, Effort, Nuclear

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• We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.

  Abdoulaye Wade

  Men, Generations, Defeat

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• Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.

  John Amos

  Writing, Ideas, Want

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• Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.

  Claude Brown

  Thinking, Our Generation, Generations

  Claude Brown, Nathan McCall (2012). “Manchild in the Promised Land”, p.394, Simon and Schuster

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• As far as co-operation with The Hague is concerned it's impossible (to arrest Milosevic) by March 31 without an agreement on the federal level despite the consequences such a move could have.

  Zoran ?in?ic

  Moving, Agreement, Levels

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• I am really excited about Battle of the Stars, the line-up looks fantastic. I've no doubt that despite their fame my hand holding will still be in high demand as they take on the judges often harsh words. Lets just hope I'm not having to mop up too many tears!

  Kate Thornton

  Stars, Hands, Judging

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