Quotes with despite

  • After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

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  • Sigmund Freud The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?''
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Ben Stein Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
    Darwinism: The Imperialism of Biology?. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Carl Stokes Despite the litany of the sorrows of the city, we must believe in the ability of man to respond to the problems of his environment.
    Carl Stokes
    American politician and diplomat (1927 - 1996)
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  • Max Lerner Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • C. S. Lewis Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Luis Bunuel Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Richard Dawkins A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Barry Commoner After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bill de Blasio As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a weapon as those of white New Yorkers - and a third less likely to yield contraband. Despite this evidence, the vast majority of those stopped are young black and Latino men.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Casey Kasem Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
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  • Ben Hecht Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Camille Paglia Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon - but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx - the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Anne Frank Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Bruce Schneier Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Bobby Davro Despite my confidence and self-belief, I've always wrestled with feelings of insecurity. To be honest, I think most people in show business are insecure.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Bram Cohen Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • Bob Ainsworth Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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