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• Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and salvation. And despite transitory and apparent successes, they are reduced to simple machinations destined to dissolution and failure.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Simple

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• Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Reality, People, Different

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• Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.

  Edmund Hillary

  Snow, Mountain, Thrill

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• Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.

  Steven Pressfield

  Attitude, Rain, Dark

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• The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

  Albert Camus

  Peace, Fighting, Evil

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.285, Vintage

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• Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.

  Karl Marx

  Struggle, Book, Science

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

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• Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

  Ben Hecht

  Art, Fall, Writing

  Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers

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• Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Pain, Compassion, Want

  Andrew Sean Greer (2007). “The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel”, p.120, Macmillan

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• Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films.

  Ken Bates

  Soccer, Football, Rambo

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• We can be consicous of how we tend to ignore or escape anguish rather than understand and accept it. We can be aware that even when we gain insight into these things, we rarely behave differently in the future. Despite our overt resolve, we are still creatures of habit.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Gains, Habit, Accepting

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• I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

  Thandie Newton

  Baby, Skins, Drawbacks

  "What I see in the mirror" by Thandie Newton, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2011.

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• Despite what I say in my songs, its never okay for a man to put his hands on a female.

  Eminem

  Song, Men, Hands

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• The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Funny, Dark, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it-despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.

  Melanie Griffith

  Wrinkles, Feels, Relaxed

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• To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day by day job that requires patience and discipline. It is the only way to make it. . . . All I know is that despite the fact that I am one of the people who benefit from a capitalist society, I find that any system which exploits other people cannot and should not exist.

  Jane Fonda

  Jobs, People, Discipline

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• CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness.

  David Foster

  Cpr, Darkness, Elements

  Interview with Larry McCaffery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1993.

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• People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy

  James Lafferty

  Nice, Character, People

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• Despite all the wonderful advances that have been made, it's still dangerous for an actor to talk about that in our extremely misguided culture. Look at what happened in California with Proposition 8. Please, don't pretend that we're suddenly all wonderfully, blissfully accepted.

  Richard Chamberlain

  California, Actors, Culture

  "Richard Chamberlain Advises Other Gay Actors: Stay in the Closet" by Bryan Alexander, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 27, 2010.

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• Despite the fact that I have a good-size pair of breasts... in Lois & Clark, I have the opportunity to show the world they're not my only attribute.

  Teri Hatcher

  Opportunity, World, Pairs

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• For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.

  Courtney Love

  Years, Taste, Impeccable

  "Courtney Love: ‘I’d Like to Be Trusted Again.’" by Eric Wilson, www.nytimes.com. November 5, 2010.

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• Despite all those years of abusing your lungs, your kidneys, your liver the only thing you've had removed is your kids.

  Kate Walsh

  Kids, Years, Kidneys

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• Christoph Waltz is stunning, an insanely nice guy. He is not only a ridiculously good actor, he’s also funny, helpful & a good colleague. I like his work ethic. I mean, the guy has won an Oscar and despite that he is receptive, open-minded & not the least bit snooty. Reese Witherspoon is the same. It may be the nicest cast that I have worked with yet.

  Robert Pattinson

  Nice, Mean, Work Ethic

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• Despite what The Wall Street Journal says, our awards are the best-kept secret in America, with the possible exception of what George W. Bush did in the '70s.

  Billy Crystal

  Wall, Awards, Best Kept Secrets

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• My parents, despite their serious attitude toward life in general, and that of their children in particular, were very broadminded people. There was no such thing as a bad profession for them. As I was their daughter, they knew that, whatever profession I chose, I would do it well. That was enough for them. There was always trust among the Kellys.

  Grace Kelly

  Daughter, Attitude, Children

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.

  Ben Stein

  Mean, Media, Alive

  "Mariah Carey's New Album: First Review" by Roger Friedman, www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2008.

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