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• The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Science, Men, America

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.9, VM eBooks

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• Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and Mom's homemade chicken soup. But you didn't do badly, for a start.

  L. J. Smith

  Mom, Apples, Pie

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• Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.

  John Frankenheimer

  Technology, Keys, Creative

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• In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Cities, House, Athens

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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• In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Laughter, Real, Hero

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• Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite?

  Lonnie Donegan

  Mother, Doe, Unanswered Questions

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• Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities.

  Todd McFarlane

  Artist, People, Different

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• In spite of the frightful pogroms which took place, first in Poland and then in unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which cost the lives of thousands of Jews, the Jewish people considered the post-war period as a messianic era. Israel, during those years, 1919-1920, rejoiced in Eastern and Southern Europe, in Northern and Southern Africa, and above all in America.

  Denis Fahey

  Fashion, War, Israel

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• You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

  Frank Langella

  Acting, Neurosis

  "Frank Langella - An Actor Matured". Interview with Barbara Isenberg, www.deseretnews.com. June 15, 1993.

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• Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.

  Shimon Peres

  Israel, Generations, Limited Resources

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Peres, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

  Paulo Freire

  Hurt, People, Political

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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• An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.

  Criss Jami

  Encouragement, Moving, Ambition

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.123, Criss Jami

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• Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Leadership, Fate, Flames

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• ...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.

  Criss Jami

  Leadership, Men, Light

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• A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.

  Alberto Moravia

  Belief

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• Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has brilliantly exposed the exaggerated claims and deceptions that have persisted in standard textbook discussions of biological origins for many decades, in spite of contrary evidence. these claims have been so often repeated that they seem unassailable - that is, until one reads Wells's book.

  Dean H. Kenyon

  Book, Icons, Community

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• In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

  Jim Balsillie

  Buying In, America, Noise

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• You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on without us, or in spite of us.

  Charlton Laird

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.

  Pierre Daninos

  Men, Soul, Gentleman

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• However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Zero, Perception, Should

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• My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Mother, Art, School

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• Every day is a fresh beginning; Listen my soul, to the glad refrain, And in spite of old sorrow… and possible pain, Take heart with the day and begin again.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Pain, Heart, Soul

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• The prayer of faith is a prayer willing to believe and prevail for God's answer in a situation that is utterly impossible. Regardless of the difficulty of the situation, you require no external confirmation but believe God in spite of appearance. Your eyes are on God, not on the situation.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Prayer, Believe, Eye

  Wesley L. Duewel (1990). “Mighty Prevailing Prayer”, p.101, Zondervan

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• From my observations, it would seem that the core message of most major religions is right, just and pure. For this reason I can not help but conclude that evil acts committed by religious people are committed not because of their religion, but in spite of it.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Religious, People

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• In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Book, Mountain

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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