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• My parents stayed together for forty years. But that was out of spite.

  Woody Allen

  Years, Parent, Together

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• Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

  Dick Gregory

  Lying, White, Years

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• In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

  Bill Cosby

  Men, May, Equal

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• The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman.

  Colin Ward

  Responsibility, Cities, Police

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• Obama is running again for spite.

  Mort Sahl

  Running

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2011

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• The most difficult days have been the ones I've had to spend correcting a mistake. We're all human, and we make errors in spite of the pains we take not to. It's important to take ownership of the situation and to work to make it right.

  Mark Mason

  Pain, Mistake, Errors

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• It's such an honor to be representing the USA in an international beauty contest in spite of all the tragedy that's happened in this country lately. I really hope that this this will raise everybody's spirits a little.

  Olivia Culpo

  Country, Usa, Honor

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• To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Love Is, Overcoming, Oneself

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1992). “Notebooks for an Ethics”, p.477, University of Chicago Press

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• The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.

  George S. Patton

  Men, Courageous Man, He Man

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• In brief, the goal of sexual suppression is that of producing an individual who is adjusted to the authoritarian order and who will submit to it in spite of all misery and degradation. . . The formation of the authoritarian structure takes place through the anchoring of sexual inhibition and sexual anxiety.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Order, Goal, Anxiety

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• The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.

  Rob Bell

  Done, Facts, Too Good To Be True

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.146, Harper Collins

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• I may have been 15 or 16 years old when, on a Sunday morning, I was sitting at home together with my mother and sister, and the floor began to move under us. The hanging lamp swayed. It was very strange. My father came into the room. "It was an earthquake," he said. The center had evidently been at a considerable distance, for the movements felt slow and not shaky. In spite of a great deal of effort, an accurate epicenter was never found. This was my only experience with an earthquake until I became a seismologist 20 years later.

  Inge Lehmann

  Mother, Morning, Distance

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• Our music is honest. We are who we are... messed up, dysfunctional sinners that have been loved in spite of our hate. We don't deny that we live in a evil world and that we have been evil people and we have evil tendencies... but we also have touched righteousness through our faith in Christ.. and we have received salvation, hope, and love... So our songs always acknowledge this truth and in turn we hope they bring faith, hope and love into the midst of the selfish, fearful hatred that makes up so much of the world we live in.

  Lacey Mosley

  Song, Hate, Selfish

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• About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Thinking, People, Joy

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• My body loves my in spite of how I may treat it. My body communicates with me, and I now listen to its messages. I am willing to GET the message.

  Louise Hay

  Body, May, Messages

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “Inner Wisdom: Meditations for the Heart and Soul”, p.27, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Tasks, Action, Muscles

  Moshe Feldenkrais (2002). “The Potent Self: A Study of Spontaneity and Compulsion”, p.85, Frog Books

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• The most successful people reach the top not because they are free of limitations, but because they act in spite of their limitations

  Michael K. Williams

  Successful, People, Limitation

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• In spite of the extent to which Solomon went to find happiness, because he left God out of the picture, nothing satisfied. It never will. Satisfaction in life will never occur until there is a meaningful connection with the living Lord above the sun.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Meaningful, Satisfaction In Life, Sun

  Charles R. Swindoll (1990). “Living on the Ragged Edge”, W Publishing Group

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• Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.

  Gautama Buddha

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Men

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• Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?

  Ben Shapiro

  Government, Long, Care

  "SHAPIRO: Why Socialism Is on the Rise". www.truthrevolt.org. January 8, 2014.

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• It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

  Henri Bergson

  Emotion, Obstacles

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• Now we notice that Mars doesn't have any atmosphere either and won't support life. In spite of the fact that it turns green and red and purple with the seasons, it doesn't support life.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Purple, Support, Atmosphere

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• In spite of the great advances which have been made in our knowledge, some fundamental gaps remain. Matter, life and mind still remain utter disparate phenomena, yet the concepts of all three arise in experience; and in the human all three meet and intermingle.

  Jan Smuts

  Mind, Three, Fundamentals

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• Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public good, except for in some cases a very small audience. This has become more and more clear in the last few years as academics have become so insular, often unwilling or unable to defend the university as a public good, in spite of the widespread attacks on academic freedom, the role of the university as a democratic public sphere, and the increasing reduction of knowledge to a saleable commodity, and students to customers.

  Henry Giroux

  Academic Freedom, Years, Lasts

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• I could have completely lost my mind or became a junkie or abandoned all sense and judgment and committed some rash, stupid act that would have sent me right back into the cage. Instead, I chose to be happy - but not so much for the sake of happiness as for spite.

  Jim Goad

  Stupid, Mind, Sake

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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