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• Take a look at me now, cause there's just an empty space. And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face.

  Phil Collins

  Space, Looks, Faces

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• Without the edge, [life's] boring...If you're doing something that's definitely achievable with 100% odds of success, where's the draw in that?

  Chris Guillebeau

  Boring, Draws, Ifs

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• I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Life, Inspiring, Waiting

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.104, A&C Black

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• When you think about what the odds are to have four boys to not only be able to follow in the footsteps in a basketball career but to also be good in the secondary career as far as the broadcasting, it's pretty remarkable.

  Rick Barry

  Basketball, Boys, Thinking

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• The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

  Michael Eisner

  Mean, Successful, America

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• For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed.

  Caitlin Moran

  Girl, Hero, Feminist

  Caitlin Moran (2012). “How to Be a Woman”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by
  all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the
  people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality,
  or worse still, as if it were their job to be nice to you, you put
  yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.

  Adyashanti

  Jobs, Nice, Mean

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• What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

  Paul Hawken

  Encouragement, Order, People

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• Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.

  George Meany

  Giving Up, Fighting, Long

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• When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

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• Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

  Ted Koppel

  Believe, Overcoming, Pessimist

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• We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.

  Simon Pegg

  Princess, Creative, Comfort

  Simon Pegg (2010). “Nerd Do Well”, p.153, Random House

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• If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Dream, Writing, Goal

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• Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

  Walter Lord

  Courage, Men, Skills

  Walter Lord (2012). “Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Honesty, Kids

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.92, Anchor

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• Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

  Dan Brown

  Inspirational, Religious, Science

  Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world.

  Idris Elba

  Eye, Men, Shoes

  "Harvey Weinstein and Idris Elba React to Nelson Mandela’s Passing". www.indiewire.com. December 5, 2013.

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• In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Country, 4th Of July

  Iowa Caucus Victory Speech, delivered 3 January 2008, Des Moines, Iowa

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• At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service.

  Fred Rogers

  Jobs, Heart, Emotional

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• The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Beauty, Greatness, Produce

  "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.

  Judith McNaught

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Judith McNaught (2003). “Remember When”

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• In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Animal, Reality

  THEODORE ROOSEVELT (2015). “The Deer Family”, p.81, Loose Cannon

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• I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Pain, Struggle

  Dean Karnazes (2012). “Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss”, p.25, Rodale

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• Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.

  Tupac Shakur

  Believe, Light, Essence

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• It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Prayer, Vanity, Praying

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2008). “Barcelona, Berlin, New York, 1928-1931”

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