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1296 Despite quotes by 1034 unique authors

Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it. — Peter Watts
In fact, the life of all mankind is in danger because of global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions of the factories… — Osama bin Laden
You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto… — Osama bin Laden
The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's CO2 is emitted… — Andrey Illarionov
The money problem facing the country from 1789 to 1896 existed because Congress never exercised is authority to "coin money or regulate the value thereof"… — William Jennings Bryan
For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of privilege, the world… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of violent… — Diane Ackerman
Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and salvation. And despite… — Pope John Paul II
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain… — Edmund Hillary
Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or… — Steven Pressfield
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… — Albert Camus
Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up… — Karl Marx
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. — Ben Hecht
Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion.… — Andrew Sean Greer
Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films. — Ken Bates
We can be consicous of how we tend to ignore or escape anguish rather than understand and accept it. We can be aware that even… — Stephen Batchelor
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s -… — Thandie Newton
Despite what I say in my songs, its never okay for a man to put his hands on a female. — Eminem
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in… — Dan Castellaneta
I think [G.W.] Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth… — Harry Belafonte
I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it-despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious. — Melanie Griffith
To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day by day job that requires patience and discipline. It is the only way… — Jane Fonda
CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness. — David Foster
People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy — James Lafferty

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