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Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.

Alain de Botton

Always Trying, Anxiety, Form

Twitter post from Apr 22, 2013

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The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.

David E. Sorensen

Jesus, Pain, Suffering

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We love our country, not because it is perfect in everything, but it manages to touch our heart despite all its imperfections in everything!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Love, Country, Heart

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Despite the boredom of the infinity, we want life not shorter than the eternity!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life, Boredom, Want

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But despite these differences, so many of our faiths and traditions are rooted in the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would want done to you. Isn't allowing adults to marry the person they love consistent with the Golden Rule?

Ken Mehlman

Love, Differences, Adults

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Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife.

Andrew Schneider

Life, Military, Sight

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The typical response from people when I tell them Im diabetic is, Oh, Im sorry to hear that. You know, Im not. Im a better athlete because of diabetes rather than despite it. Im more aware of my training, my fitness and more aware of nutrition. Im more proactive about my health.

Charlie Kimball

Im Sorry, Athlete, People

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Despite some struggles of our own, Americas business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.

John S. Watson

Struggle, Envy, World

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Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because it has been so exclusively dedicated to incanting anemic souls into Heaven, it has been made the tool of much earthly villainy. It has, for the most part, stood silently by while a predatory economy has ravaged the world, destroyed its natural beauty and health, divided and plundered its human communities and households.

Wendell Berry

Community, Heaven, Soul

Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.319, Counterpoint

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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Fighting, Men, Rivers

Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.202, Best Books on

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A hero is also someone who, in their day to day interactions with the world, despite all the pain, uncertainty and doubt that can plague us, is resiliently and unashamedly themselves. If you can wake up every day and be emotionally open and honest regardless of what you get back from the world then you can be the hero of your own story. Each and every person who can say that despite life’s various buffetings that they are proud to be the person they are is a hero.

Daniel Radcliffe

Pain, Hero, Doubt

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You have to be willing to be happy. Despite the mess of your life-just accept what's happened, throw away your ideals, and create a new map of happiness to follow.

Tarryn Fisher

Maps, Accepting, Mess

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I think of myself as unconventional. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.

Kim Gordon

Thinking, Unconventional, Recognition

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.

Steven Spielberg

Mistake, Moving, Forgiving

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Having a belief in God, being able to find joy, despite your circumstances or put yourself outside of yourself, and stop looking inwards and look outwards a little bit really helps to carry through tough times. Giving makes you feel better.

Queen Latifah

Feel Better, Giving, Tough Times

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Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed.

George Harrison

People, Car, Fancy

Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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My first trip was the Appalachian Trail, and I was able to finish it despite having no skills and no experience when I started. In comparison, I can think of only a few individuals in the world who have the potential do complete the Alaska-Yukon Expedition.

Andrew Skurka

Thinking, Alaska, Skills

Source: ryanjordan.com

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The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how many times I watch it, I still find myself fully invested in the characters despite the fact I know what is coming. I think it was this type of mastery of storytelling and the ability of bringing the audience so completely into another world that made me want to become a director.

Nicholas Ozeki

Character, Thinking, Directors

Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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Some writing courses will advise you to write what you know. I've always thought this is very odd advice ... because it means, for example, that I should not be writing about Nicholas Flamel, because I didn't live in France in the 15th Century, I was not an alchemyst, am not immortal (despite the rumours) and do not know magic.

Michael Scott

Writing, Mean, Advice

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Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish reverie. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement.

John of Kronstadt

Christian, Essence, Evil

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That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things.

Rob Bell

Cities, Differences, Common Humanity

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Comedy Central made me delete the Boston Marathon joke. I wasn't happy about it but, despite popular belief, I can occasionally be a team player.

Anthony Jeselnik

Team, Player, Boston

Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 9, 2013.

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Here's a man who was twice elected to the most powerful position on Earth despite needing a TelePrompTer to correctly identify what year it was.

Dave Barry

Funny, Powerful, Men

Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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Laws never protect anyone, despite claiming to be all about protecting the public. Each legal restriction only strengthens the power of mafia and crime organising who step in to help people do what the law says they can't do, in every country.

Terre Thaemlitz

Country, Law, People

"How Japan's New Nightclub Laws Threaten to Decimate Their Club Culture". Interview with Jonny Coleman, pitchfork.com. September 10, 2015.

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Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements.

Albert Bandura

Self, Achievement, Notable

"Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social-Cognitive Theory". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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