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Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years… — Quinn Cummings
It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex. — Alison Bechdel
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put… — Stanley Hauerwas
No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you. — Robert Greene
... I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your… — Joe Satriani
For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is… — Christiaan Barnard
In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write. — Theodore Roethke
Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If… — Elon Musk
The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it. — John C. Maxwell
If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too. — Tim Maleeny
The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked to death than… — Robert S. Johnson
The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a multi-billion-dollar international corporation… — Lois Gibbs
I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak… — W. Eugene Smith
The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make… — Yoko Ono
You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but… — Roger Martin
In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture. — Nancy Pearcey
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. — Kate Millett
I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds but through courage and determination find their heart's desire. — Francis Ray
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take… — Edwin Way Teale

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