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• Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Long, Tree

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• Odds are just the people opinion. Respect your own opinion.

  Evander Holyfield

  People, Opinion

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• What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

  Richard Bach

  Adventure, Risk, Life Is Like

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• If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.

  Richard Dawkins

  Practice, Tasks, Would Be

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• The value of free expression is perceived to be at odds with goals that were considered 'more important,' like inclusiveness, diversity, nondiscrimination, and tolerance.

  Greg Lukianoff

  Expression, Diversity, Goal

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• I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know itcan be done. I know the impossible can become possible.

  Marcia Wallace

  Optimism, Done, Earning

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• If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

  Christopher Rice

  Dream, Down And, Slow Down

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• If you dont have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you wont reach them or will quit trying.

  Brett Hoebel

  Emotional, Accomplish Your Goals, Trying

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• The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Dumb, Challenges, Fields

  "Jerry Seinfeld, Online Force" by Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. May 27, 2015.

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• First, my frame of reference for the Britten opera shifted. I'd always thought of Britten's approach in Death in Venice as another exploration of the plight of the individual whose aspirations are at odds with those of the surrounding community: his last opera returning to the themes of Peter Grimes. As I read and listened and thought, however, Billy Budd came to seem a more appropriate foil for Death in Venice.

  Philip Kitcher

  Venice, Community, Plight

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Even though a screenplay is performed only once, unlike other forms of drama, it's still a performance in itself, and unless it's a great performance, odds are that actors will not come, and a movie will never be made.

  William Monahan

  Drama, Actors, Form

  Source: collider.com

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• United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and
  split asunder.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Challenges, Splits

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• Acting is something that I couldn't recommend to anyone because the odds of it working out are so insane. I don't know how it worked out for me. I had no connections to this industry. I had no ins anywhere.

  Kat Dennings

  Work Out, Insane, Acting

  "Kat Dennings Talks 2 BROKE GIRLS, RENEE and the THOR Sequel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2011.

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• Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

  Robert Breault

  Confidence, Odds Against You

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• I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds, but through courage and determination find their heart's desire.

  Francis Ray

  Determination, Writing, Heart

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

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• In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Religious, Historical, Groups

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• You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

  Roger Martin

  Choices, Risk, Needs

  "The Big Lie of Strategic Planning". Article by Roger Martin, hbr.org. January - February 2014.

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• The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.

  Yoko Ono

  Miracle, Making Love, Wonder

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• I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak to people, so I must desert that ivory tower. To do this, I am a journalist - a photojournalist. But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist, who is a recorder of facts, and the artist, who is often necessarily at odds with the facts. My principle concern is for honesty, above all honesty with myself.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Honesty, Attitude, Artist

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• The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a multi-billion-dollar international corporation and an unresponsive government), using the power of the people in our democratic system.

  Lois Gibbs

  Winning, Government, Blue

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• Life for the majority of the population.
  Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds.
  Culminating in a cheap funeral.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Struggle, Funeral, Majority

  Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked to death than the individual who subjects himself to battle shorn of any protection but his own skill, his own belief in himself and in his wingman. Righteousness is necessary for one's peace of mind, perhaps, but it is a poor substitute for agility . . . and a resolution to meet the enemy under any conditions and against any odds.

  Robert S. Johnson

  Men, Skills, Mind

  Robert S. Johnson, Martin Caidin “Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace”, Lulu.com

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• The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take as many trout as I want from a stream? Why cannot I bring home from the woods a rare wildflower? Because if I do, everybody in this democracy should be able to do the same. My act will be multiplied endlessly. To provide protection for wildlife and wild beauty, everyone has to deny himself proportionately. Special privilege and conservation are ever at odds.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Home, Fighting, Self

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• Sorry Johnny." "Sorry for what " "For shouting at you. It's just that when I think about the future I keep panicking. It's like falling from the top of the stairs in the dark not knowing where I'll end up." He put his arm around my shoulders. "I understand. Life is precarious for most of us but more so for you. What you forget is what most of your friends see in you." "What's that " "The ability to beat the odds..." "And fall on my feet " He nodded. "I just hope that lasts." "It will Catkin it will. It wouldn't dare fail you.

  Julia Golding

  Sorry, Fall, Dark

  Julia Golding (2011). “Den of Thieves”, p.124, Egmont UK

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• Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

  Anne Rice

  Age, Spirit, Has Beens

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.341, Ballantine Books

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