Notwithstanding Quotes
102 Notwithstanding quotes by 93 unique authors
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When we are relaxed and reasonable content, we are naturally wise. We accept that life is unpredictable, unreliable. We say jokingly or philosophically, "Nothing is…
— Sylvia Boorstein
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I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since 1776,…
— Robert Burchfield
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The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a…
— Karl Philipp Moritz
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I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S.…
— Mary Todd Lincoln
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Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the…
— Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific document… DSM-IV has…
— Loren Mosher
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All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
— Emma Goldman
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The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary…
— Margaret Sanger
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There is perhaps not an enlightened Christian in America who, notwithstanding he may believe that, at the time of Jesus, men were possessed of devils,…
— Lysander Spooner
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Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover,…
— Eliot Spitzer
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Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.
— J. Michael Straczynski
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O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded…
— George Whitefield
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It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their…
— George Whitefield
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Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator,…
— Archibald MacLeish
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A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not…
— Margaret Sanger
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How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made…
— Hannah Arendt
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Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding…
— Flann O'Brien
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The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that…
— Peter Kropotkin
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I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place…
— Charles Dickens
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This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
— Anthony de Mello
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What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?…
— George MacDonald
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One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the…
— Paulo Freire
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[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary…
— Joan Didion
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