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• I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission of feminism is to seek the full political and legal equality of women with men. However, I disagree with many of my fellow feminists as an equal opportunity feminist, who believes that feminism should only be interested in equal rights before the law. I utterly oppose special protection for women where I think that a lot of the feminist establishment has drifted in the last 20 years.

  Camille Paglia

  Believe, Opportunity, Men

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• Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one - and he won.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Player, Thinking, Games

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• Dedication is loyalty to a cause, even when hope has long expired for a successful outcome. It is an unstoppable determination to win regardless of the odds.

  Wes Fesler

  Loyalty, Determination, Successful

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• Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as being at odds with the rest of ourselves.

  Julia Serano

  Personality, Desire, Pits

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• Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Crazy, Mad, Intellectual

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.184, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but that's only because you're afraid to call it by its real name, and its real name is fear.

  Mick Farren

  Fear, Real, Names

  Mick Farren (2010). “Darklost”, p.154, Macmillan

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• I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Running, Looks, Chaos

  Rosie O'Donnell (2002). “Find Me”

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• Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream

  Junko Tabei

  Dream, Nature, Travel

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• We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United States, we have been through some difficult times together, and I can only say that the friendship that we have for this nation, the respect and the admiration we have for the people of this nation, their courage, their tenacity, their firmness in the face of very great odds, is one that makes us proud to stand with Israel, as we have in the past in times of trouble, and now to work with Israel in a better time, a time that we trust will be a time of peace.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Past, Israel, Years

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• It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds with the very rhythm of things and we are forever restless, dissatisfied, frustrated, and aching. We are so overcharged with desire that it is hard to come to simple rest. Desire is always stronger than satisfaction.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Simple, Forever, Frustrated

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• They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

  Bobby Fischer

  Stupid, Player, Men

  "Portrait of a genius as a young chess master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, harpers.org. January 1962.

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• I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination. ... that I persevered. Because I think that being somewhat of a pest to life, constantly plaguing and pursuing, will bring results.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Determination, Commitment, Thinking

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• By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant shock. We find him instead the only lighthearted being in a deadly serious universe.... He alone, with childish carelessness, tinkered and played, and exerted himself more in the pursuit of superfluities than of necessities. Yet the tinkering and playing, and the fascination with the nonessential, were a chief source of the inventiveness which enabled man to prevail over better-equipped and more-purposeful animals.

  Eric Hoffer

  Animal, Men, Should Have

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• What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

  Scott Turow

  Suicide, Drug, Age

  Scott Turow (2006). “Limitations”, p.119, Macmillan

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• Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the "cliché" in discourse.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Museums, Kitsch, Junk

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• I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

  Peter Shilton

  "Peter Shilton vows: I really can win Strictly Come Dancing", www.mirror.co.uk. October 7, 2010.

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• War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  War, Purpose, Maintenance

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• When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds but might let go again at any moment.

  Terry Pratchett

  Letting Go, Voice, Brave

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• The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.

  John Stuart Mill

  Doe, Argument, Strongest

  John Stuart Mill, G. W. Smith (1998). “John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Freedom”, p.195, Taylor & Francis

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• It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the pearly gates open, those who had the valor to think for themselves will be escorted to the head of the line, garlanded, and given their own personal audience.

  E. O. Wilson

  Thinking, Heaven, Lines

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• All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

  Edith Hamilton

  Planets, Thinker, All Things

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• I like to say, Chop sueys the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means tsap sui, which, if you translate back, means odds and ends.

  Jennifer Lee

  Mean, Chinese, Culture

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• If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Mind, Knows

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• The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, War, Fall

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 13, l. 60

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• It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

  Douglas Adams

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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