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• In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been based upon financial sacrifice, not gain. Even in Athens, a large part of the 7,000 citizens who participated regularly in assemblies were farmers who had to give up several days' work to go into town to talk and listen.

  John Ralston Saul

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Democracy

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• Horses don’t think the same as humans. Something that’s most unique about the horse, that I love, is not what he possesses but what he doesn’t possess.  And that is greed, spite, hate, jealousy, envy, prejudice.  The horse doesn’t possess any of those things.  If you think about people, the least desirable people to be around usually possess some or all of those things.  And the way God made the horse, he left that out.

  Buck Brannaman

  Jealousy, Horse, Hate

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• A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it.

  Donna Jo Napoli

  Brother, Hate, Book

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• Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

  Jon Foreman

  Pain, Substitutes

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• There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.

  William Gurnall

  Devil, Way, Instruments

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.10

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• Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Art, Celebration, Defeat

  "Writing and rootlessness". Interview with Michael March, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2004.

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• Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Has Beens

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• The idea of difficulty animates us all the time. We don’t want man to be an angel; we want him to be a hero. That is to say, a man like us, but who does extraordinary things. He jumps, yes, but in spite of the law of gravity. And everything he does is always ‘in spite of.’

  Etienne Decroux

  Hero, Angel, Men

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• Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt.

  Horatius Bonar

  Men, Evil, Guilt

  Horatius Bonar (1873). “The everlasting righteousness; or, How shall man be just with God?.”, p.7

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• As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.

  George R. Stewart

  Running, War, Fate

  George R. Stewart (1993). “Earth Abides”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My god
  how gentle you are with me
  in spite of my great ignorance
  and how merciful You are with me
  in spite of my ugly deeds

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Forgiveness, God, Religious

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• Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.

  Leo Ornstein

  Writing, Men, Ears

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• We don’t just live in a celebrity take-down culture; we live in a take-down culture. People will find anything about you and twist it to where it’s weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad. You have to live your life not only in spite of people who don’t understand you - you have to have more fun than they do.

  Taylor Swift

  Fun, People, Live Your Life

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• Theatre remains the only thing I understand. It is in the community of theatre that I have my being. In spite of jealousies and fears, emotional conflicts and human tensions; in spite of the penalty of success and the dread of failure; in spite of tears and feverish gaiety this is the only life I know. It is the life I love.

  Robert Helpmann

  Emotional, Community, Tears

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• By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socioeconomic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace.

  Thomas Merton

  Political, Trials, Favors

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.134, Sounds True

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• The true warrior isn't immune to fear. She fights in spite of it.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Fighting, Warrior, Immune

  Francesca Lia Block (2013). “Love in the Time of Global Warming”, p.110, Macmillan

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• Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.

  Adrian Rogers

  Believe, Circumstances, Consequence

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• We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

  Michel Quoist

  Prayer, Loss, Thinking

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• The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Flower, Creative, Sickness

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• God did not make us robots. In spite of the denial by Luther, Calvin, and many evangelical leaders today, God gave man a will to freely choose to love or to hate Him, to receive Christ as Savior and Lord or to reject Him.

  Dave Hunt

  Hate, Men, Leader

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• The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.

  Otis Williams

  Temptation, Today, Stills

  Otis Williams, Patricia Romanowski, Patricia Romanowski Bashe (2002). “Temptations”, p.219, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most of all, it ceases to be intimate. It degenerates into a monologue or a mutter. An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance. Without reviews, literature would be oddly mute in spite of all those words on all those pages of all those books. Reviewing makes of reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport.

  Patricia Hampl

  Sports, Book, Reading

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• Powder snow skiing is not fun. It is life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality. What we experience in powder is the original human self, which lies deeply inside each of us, still undamaged in spite of what our present culture tries to do to us. Once experienced, this kind of living is recognized as the only way to live — fully aware of the earth and the sky and the gods and you, the mortal, playing among them.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Fun, Lying, Reality

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• Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in spite of your body’s frailties and conflicts and general revolt, and then one day your body is not separate any more. You’ve in a sense become the piano or the dance or the word or the prayer. The prayer is in your heart. The prayer is your heart.

  Heather King

  Prayer, Writing, Heart

  Heather King (2015). “Stripped: At the Intersection of Cancer, Culture, and Christ”, p.38, Loyola Press

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• Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted,
  spite of ugly looks and threats,
  And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Art, Nursing, Sight

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.85

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