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- Kim Campbell- Copy
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“ Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory. ”
- Justin Kaplan- Copy
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“ The greats often became great because they continued to believe in themselves despite apparent failures. ”
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“ Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. ”
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- Max Lerner- Copy
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- C. S. Lewis- Copy
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“ 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. ”
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- Erica Jong- Copy
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“ Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults. ”
- Les Brown- Copy
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“ Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson- Copy
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“ The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all — he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly. ”
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“ There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners. ”
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“ We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or preoccupation or want of intelligence, opposed to us — and yet despite their bias, just for the sake of making these men decide in our favor, we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow — or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends. ”
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