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• Those of us who think about what we eat, how it's grown, those of us who care about the environmental impact of food - we've been educated by fabulous books, like Fast Food Nation and documentaries like Food Inc. But despite these and other great projects that shine a critical light on the topic, every year the food industry spends literally tens of millions of dollars to shape the public conversation about our food system.

  Anna Lappe

  Book, Thinking, Impact

  "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview with Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.

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• Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Military, War, Men

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• Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Writing, Promise

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• I have deliberated carefully about which of the terms that are unfamiliar to many of my readers I wanted to take time to introduce and explain, and which terms I would not introduce, despite the fact that I find them useful in my other work, in teaching, or in other activist contexts.

  Dean Spade

  Teaching, Facts, Introducing

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Despite the war, and bombings, and all the big things that happen to us, the stuff of our lives is small and always will be. During a war it is different, but even then, it is perfectly possible to write novels during a major war, which are about those thing which endure. It is what makes us human and the thing which is going to keep going.

  Robert Dessaix

  War, Writing, Different

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• There might be lots of boring thoughts coming from someone else, but the way they come across, they would be mind blowing because they would come in such a way so foreign to me. I think I would mostly be surprised, but alarmed also. There will be something within each of us, despite our differences, in thought processes to connect us.

  Matthew Carter

  Thinking, Differences, Mind Blowing

  Source: darkagefiction.wordpress.com

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• Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they do like them despite the fact that they're vitriolic, particularly if they're for the right thing. If you can see that the person is a decent person and is for the right thing, and is not just a nasty person with base motives, but someone who is a decent human but expresses himself.

  Woody Allen

  Sarcastic, Character, People

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• I'm a big fan of the Queen. She carries herself well, as does the Prince of Wales, despite getting lots of stick.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Queens, Fans, Doe

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it seems to capture the reality of the entire situation so much better than any set of statistics.

  Nicholson Baker

  Reading, Reality, Thinking

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• Despite being extremely professional, Michael Caine has a giggle which was lethal for me because once you catch his eyes, once you realize the other person is a giggler too, it's curtains.

  Emily Mortimer

  Eye, Realizing, Curtains

  Source: collider.com

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• Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, Years, Glue

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.

  Seth

  Powerful, Censorship, Resilient

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• Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. But to arrive at this end, which is only a beginning (for we haven’t begun to live yet!), a man has got to learn the doctrine of acceptance, that is, of unconditional surrender, which is love.

  Henry Miller

  Acceptance, Men, Expression

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.254, New Directions Publishing

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• Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material.

  John Linder

  Technology, Hearing, Experts

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• But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

  Alex Campbell

  Meaningful, Progress, Essentials

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• Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.

  Peter Cook

  Team, School, Ignorance

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• Keep the faith...that the best is yet to come.
  Keep the faith that the next extraordinary version of you is being crafted even now...that nothing can deter you from keeping your commitment to achieving your goals set for today...that you can better your best!
  Keep the faith.
  Move forward in spite of your fears and despite any evidence to the contrary.
  Believe that IT'S POSSIBLE!!

  Les Brown

  Moving, Believe, Commitment

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• Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn’t serve
  the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being
  your true self despite fear, fatigue, doubt, and opposition-
  will serve the world more than you can imagine. In fact, it
  may help save it. And saving the world, after all, is
  what all heroes (including you) are here to do.

  Martha Beck

  Hero, Self, Hands

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• Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.

  Tom Allen

  Past, Government, Citizens

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• Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.

  Eric Davis

  Children, Kids, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man’s most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.

  Steven Solomon

  Men, Water, Scarcity

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• The Greeks had considered hope the final evil in Pandora's box. They also gave us an image of perfect nobility: a human being lovingly doing her duty to another human being despite all threats, and going to her death with pride and courage, not deterred by any hope - Antigone.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Pride, Evil, Perfect

  Walter Kaufmann (1977). “The Future of the Humanities”, p.23, Transaction Publishers

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• In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack of literal meaning, the blurred diminutive image of the acrobatic performance that so gloriously supplies the bravura ending for the next chapter.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Crazy, Mirrors

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951”, Library of America

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• We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.

  Felix Adler

  Struggle, School, Diversity

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences.

  Dan Brown

  Peace, Military, Government

  Dan Brown (2002). “Deception Point”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

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