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Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Don Marquis
Integrity
Some
Spite
Likeable
Persons
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
Don Marquis
Best
Age
Spite
Troubles
Likely
Learned
Said
How
His
Person
Middle
Middle Age
Middle-Aged
Little
Fun
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
Edith Wharton
Good
Political
Enough
Spite
Never
Known
Author
Political Views
Being
Views
Novel
Adapted
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Death
Time
Difficult
Society
See
Fact
Spite
Never
Accept
Because
Unfamiliar
Happens
Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?
Elizabeth Bibesco
Chapter
Events
Living
Everything
Paragraph
Spite
Go
End
Subsequent
Done
Anything
Sentence
Even
Ever
Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc.
Ellen Key
Freedom
Business
Woman
Photography
Courage
Women
Management
Brilliant
Increasing
Independent
Examples
More
Spite
Hotel
Occupation
Lack
Often
Etc
Successful
Means
Choose
European
Activity
Her
Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
Emil Cioran
Man
Starts
Everyday
Spite
He
Over
Knows
Again
Against
I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices.
Emily Giffin
Path
Challenge
Enjoy
Characters
Destructive
Find
More
Perfect
Spite
Unsympathetic
Readers
Making
Than
Interesting
Them
Flawed
Much
Root
Choices
While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did.
Eric Holder
Service
Man
Father
Country
Oklahoma
Blacks
More
Spite
Never
He
Couple
Known
Were
South
Than
American
Did
Refused
African
Where
African Americans
Loved
While
Places
Uniform
Who
Served
Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.
Evangelista Torricelli
Nature
Difficulty
Others
Claim
Claims
Easily
Only
Spite
Argued
No-One
Know
Without
Does
Exist
Exists
Any
Who
Many
Resistance
Vacuum
What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.
Fritz Kreisler
Me
Liberty
Police
Strict
Increased
Relaxation
Everywhere
Kind
Spite
Particularly
Mob
Impressed
Greatly
Any
Order
Vienna
Regulations
I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal.
Gary Johnson
Alcohol
Criminal
Drink
Spite
Terrible
Smoke
Handicap
Being
Anymore
I danced with passion to spite the music.
Gelsey Kirkland
Music
Passion
Danced
Spite
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Life
Me
Made
My Life
Affection
Every
All My Life
Has-Been
Spite
Step
Taken
Been
Forward
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Life
Silence
Everything
Spite
Speaking
Apparent
The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.
Ibrahim Babangida
Technology
Humanity
Word
Books
Date
Spite
Remains
Written
Written Word
Advances
Most
Till
Still
Form
Enduring
Information
Information Technology
Reason
Strategies
I learned how important physical conditioning is. I learned how to focus on an objective in spite of all kinds of hazards. I learned how to deal with stress, too.
Jack Ramsay
Stress
Focus
Important
Too
Kinds
Physical
Objective
Spite
Hazards
Learned
Deal
How
Conditioning
When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?
Jackie Speier
Government
People
Spite
For The People
Becomes
Then
Really
Who
Serving
That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
Jacky Ickx
Motorcycle
Me
Passion
First
Danger
Spite
Could
Soon
Attraction
Felt
Real
Encouraged
Represent
Which
Why
Community, responsibility, flexibility, tenacity - these are all things that I imbue my characters with. They are basically good, nonjudgmental people who succeed at the end of the day, sometimes in spite of themselves.
Janet Evanovich
Good
Day
People
Sometimes
End Of The Day
Responsibility
Community
Characters
All Things
Tenacity
Spite
End
Succeed
Themselves
Flexibility
Who
Things
Basically
But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics.
Jay Carney
Politics
Creativity
Innovation
World
Think
Incredible
Our
States
Spite
Powerful
Smartest
Economy
Look
Most
Most Powerful
Still
Lot
Effective
America
Going
Us
Workforce
Engine
United
United States
United States Of America
Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was... Barack Obama, in 2008. He did it, in spite of a flat pledge to the contrary, because his campaign saw that it could vastly outspend John McCain.
Jeff Greenfield
Remember
Election
First
Presidential
Saw
Pledge
Obama
Financing
John
John McCain
General
General Election
Both
Spite
Vastly
Could
He
Primary
Because
His
Campaign
Contrary
Did
Candidate
McCain
Flat
Barack
Barack Obama
Public
Reject
A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.
Jeff Lindsay
Truth
Time
Business
Single
Enough
Meeting
Spent
Bores
Triumph
More
Spite
Rival
Attentive
Most
Reveal
Single Moment
Faking
Than
Human
Crashing
Pub
Choking
Congratulate
Moment
Actually
Basic
Cordial
High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.
John Burnside
Eyes
World
Perspective
Relatives
Everyday
Consider
Our
High
Visual
See
Spite
Take
Open
Emphasis
Reminding
Missed
Like
Fresh
Prairie
Very
Account
Meadows
Little
Us
Certain
Teach
Desert
Near
Speech
Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.
John Frankenheimer
Technology
Director
Creative
Key
Has-Been
Must
Fact
Spite
Maintain
New
Protect
Continually
Been
Historically
Trying
New Technology
Element
Film
Man, in spite of his fatal degradation, bears always the evident marks of his divine origin, in that every universal belief is always more or less true.
Joseph de Maistre
Man
Every
Evident
Marks
Degradation
More
More Or Less
Bears
Spite
Divine
True
Always
His
Less
Origin
Belief
Universal
Fatal
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