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“Germany is a fascinating role model. The Germans have maintained their manufacturing edge despite being a high-tax, high-regulation economy. Why? Because the government really set about ensuring that it maintained funding for technical training, technical advancements and programs. It made a concerted effort to retain high-end, complex manufacturing -- the kind of BMW model, if you will. And they've done that so successfully that Germany, which has a quarter of America's population, exports more than America does.”

“Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.”

Humans Happens Care Felt Evidence Despite Oneness Consideration Flood Hurricanes Earthquakes Kinship Tornadoes Eruption Volcanic Eruptions

Author:Alan Lightman

“In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man taking the rap despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that 'learned subservience.'”

Ifs Men Enough Would Be Together Black Community Cases Crime He Man Smart Agree Prison Rap Sentences Despite Accused Being Smart Black Community Subservience

Author:Warren Farrell

“In a sense, sexual harassment lawsuits are just the latest version of the female selection process allowing her to select for men who care enough for her to put their career at risk; who have enough finesse to initiate without becoming a jerk and enough guts to initiate despite a potential lawsuit. In the past, though, the process of his overcoming her barriers was called 'courtship.' Now it is called either 'courtship' or 'sexual harassment'.”

Men Enough Care Past Process Careers Risk Becoming Female Overcoming Versions Despite Guts Barriers Allowing Who Cares Selection Select Jerk Harassment Courtship Initiate Lawsuit Finesse

Author:Warren Farrell

“Despite the mythic heights to which he was raised, Azikiwe was nothing if not pragmatic, a realist always conscious of his limits and ever eager to extract all that was possible from that limited horizon.”

Ifs Limits Conscious Raised Despite Height Horizon Realist Pragmatic

Author:Nnamdi Azikiwe

“We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.”

Shows Lasts Happiness Next House Practice Car Direct Despite Mess Coaching Host Promotion Therapists Talk Shows Searching For Happiness Stinky

Book:Stumbling on Happiness

Source: Stumbling on Happiness

“Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior.”

Way Firsts Action Law Numbers Known Students Speech Behavior Constitution Strategy Bottom Despite Distinction Amendments Manipulate First Amendment Inconsequential

Author:Stanley Fish

“I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. But, despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.”

Knows Firsts Long America Black President Effort Race Struggle Highest Pages Finished Despite Chapters Best Effort

Author:Hillary Clinton

“We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.”

Grows Tomorrow Horror Despite

Book:The Complete Poetry

Source: The Complete Poetry

“We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up.”

Problem Risk Huge Built Absence Despite Regulation Overwhelmed

Author:Timothy Geithner

“On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and this is what is decisive has never been lost, despite times of decline, so long as the Nordic blood was still alive. Heroism, in fact, took many forms, from the warrior nobility of Siegfried or Hercules to the intellectual nobility of Copernicus and Leonardo , the religious nobility of Eckehart and Lagarde, or the political nobility of Frederick the Great and Bismarck , and its substance has remained the same.”

“Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private industry, and academia, it has been at its best and generated the greatest economic, social, and technological benefits since it was 'liberated' by the hordes of 'geeks' who were originally hired to run it by employers who were not themselves conversant with computers, and couldn't tell when their employees were exchanging official traffic or trading dirty jokes and recipes for marijuana brownies.”

“It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.”

Humans Successful Doubt Evidence Work Out Contrary Despite Temptation Managers Inclination Things Will Work Out

Author:Hyman Rickover

“Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long history of shutting people out--african americans, women, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities--and throughout our history, we have found too many ways to divide and exclude people from their ownership of the law and protection under the law.”

“Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.”

Mind Death Anxiety Defense Despite Lurking

Book:Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

Source: Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

“Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in--the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.”

Doe Reality Individual Stars Known Power Fate Absolutes Tricks Despite Mortality Creeps Helplessness Absolute Power

Book:Existential Psychotherapy

Source: Existential Psychotherapy

“Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with the hard work of not-for-profit lobbyists, environmental lawyers, green economists, sustainability-minded engineers, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, it's going to take the inspired political involvement of millions of Americans to get our country on track to solving this problem.”

“In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our law shall fix a measure and a limit to this greed." The predictable result of Diocletian's food price controls were black markets, hunger and food confiscation by his soldiers. Despite the disastrous history of price controls, politicians never manage to resist tampering with prices -- that's not a flattering observation of their learning abilities.”

Should Law Black Ability Results Politician Limits Army Greed Soldier Hunger Despite Manage Observation March Predictable Emperor Flattering Declaring Cheapness Roman Emperor

Author:Walter E. Williams

“We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.”

Ifs Ideas Creative Failing Willing Experiments Despite Pool Be Creative Breakthrough

Author:Doug Dawson

“Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites stuck to them. You are too intent upon your chewing and gathering to listen to me, but I tell you that despite my warm feelings I really do not like you, and I cannot feel sorry for you in any way because there are too many of you and you are not cute at all. You eat too much of my forests; you are a rebellious tribe, and I will destroy you; I will poison your nests with sweet-smelling traps.”

“More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it in spite of its denials and ex-communications. We are far from having overcome bourgeois thought or practices, despite the socialist "intermission" between the Russian revolution and the collapse of the Berlin wall. The avant-garde has lost its radical nature. On the other hand, "bourgeois theatre" is sometimes subtle enough to flirt with the avant-garde or to make "intelligent boulevard theatre.”

“Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all, it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English.”

Ifs Giving Writing Ideas Stories Pay Attention Wonderful Talent Type Give Me Plant Bunch Ass Despite Pay Attention Keyboards Leaks Scribbles

Author:Glen Cook

“One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced economies, many millions of people endure terrible economic and social deprivation, despite the incredible wealth all around them.”

People Social Wealth Existence Poverty Millions Economy Economic Terrible Capitalism Endure Incredibles Extremes Despite Continuing Deprivation Extreme Poverty

Book:Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism

Source: Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism

“The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the event, and delegate that. I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various “modern” C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion.”

“The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated... Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.”

Fighting Force Courage Democracy Threat Tyranny Despite Dictatorship Moderation Extremism Intimidated

Author:Benazir Bhutto

“...there are still truths in the Bible and many other ancient texts despite what religions have done to destroy and debase them. Religious dogma and myth have been used very successfully either to suppress understanding or to twist the truth sufficiently to turn something positive into something negative.”

Has Beens Stills Done Used Turns Understanding Religious Negative Ancient Myth Despite Dogma Twists Religious Dogma

Author:David Icke

“Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.”

Men Too Much Wise Century Politician Contrary Clever Despite Great Men Canada Good Man

Book:The patriot game: Canada and the Canadian question revisited

Source: The patriot game: Canada and the Canadian question revisited

“Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.”

Humans Art Artist Values Imagination Impossible Happened Subjects Art Is Police Terror Despite Concentration Camps Human Values Concentration Camp

Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

“Moving to the forefront of advanced nations is not a choice but a national duty. This requires, among other things, erecting the best industrial property protection systems despite all challenges, particularly in the transition phase that we must endure.”

Moving Choices Nations Challenges Duty Property Endure Protection Despite Transition Phases

Author:Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

“Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good movie. I learned that lesson while enduring the seemingly-endless tedium of The Doors, and was reminded of it during some of the long, drawn-out portions of JFK. However, nothing that Stone has directed or misdirected prepared me for the grotesque mess that is Natural Born Killers.”

“Despite its increased dependence on the international economy, America continues to behave as if it were either a closed economy or the leader whom everyone else should automatically follow.”

Ifs Should America Leader Economy International Despite Behave Dependence

Book:The Political Economy of International Relations

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations

“I have been advised that you have decided to move forward with your story without my interview. This, despite the fact confirmed more than three weeks ago that I would make myself available on a date certain (6 July), after you spoke to other relevant Church personnel and toured Church facilities, and that I would provide information annihilating the credibility of your sources including the fundamental crimes against the Scientology religion that were the reasons for their removal from post.”

“The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw data that came in through my senses and fashioning it into a meaningful universe: that part of my brain was down, and out. And yet despite all of this, I had been alive, and aware, truly aware, in a universe characterized above all by love, consciousness, and reality. There was, for me, simply no arguing this fact. I knew it so completely that I ached.”

World Facts Reality Universe Brain Consciousness Alive Creating Responsible Down And Moved Arguing Meaningful Senses Despite Data

Book:Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

Source: Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

“First, the only certainty is that there is no certainty. Second, every decision, as a consequence, is a matter of weighing probabilities. Third, despite uncertainty we must decide and we must act. And lastly, we need to judge decisions not only on the results, but on how they were made.”

Needs Firsts Made Matter Decision Results Judging Consequence Thirds Despite Certainty Uncertainty Probability Weighing

Author:Robert Rubin

“Despite the Brian Williams lying scandal, NBC News led in the ratings last week. Although I should note the figures were reported by Brian Williams.”

Should Lasts Lying Week Figures News Notes Despite Scandal Rating Brian Nbc Nbc News

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Despite Russia's move to raise interest rates this week, the value of the ruble has continued to crash. Russia's economy is so bad, Edward Snowden had to put government secrets on Craigslist.”

Government Moving Values Interest Secret Economy Week Raises Rate Russia Despite Crash Interest Rate Snowden Craigslist

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money.”

Source: Minority Report

“A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening to music coordinates more disparate parts of the brain than almost anything else--and playing music uses even more! Despite illuminating a lot of what goes on this book doesn't "spoil" enjoyment- it only deepens the beautiful mystery that is music.”

Book Use Beautiful Reading Brain Mystery Creation Listening Goes On Perception Despite Enjoyment Listening To Music Spoil Playing Music Illuminating Coordinates Dissection

Author:David Byrne

“... an appallingly high percentage of doctors and other practitioners are still pretty much out of the loop regarding trigger points, despite their having been written about in medical journals for over sixty years.”

Years Stills Pain Written Doctors Medical Despite Therapy Injury Sixty Journal Percentages Triggers Loops

Author:Clair Davies

“Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. The average comics shop can offer only a tiny fraction of an industrywide selection that is itself extremely limited in scope. And even when readers know exactly what they want, the search can be maddeningly futile.”

Knows Want Book Hard Given Reader Offers Importance Dollars Average Creator Tiny Despite Comic Corporate Shops Abandoned Comic Book Selection Scope Fractions Book Readers

Author:Scott McCloud

“Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As an aside, it is now amazing to me how much of the advice from my elders in those days has not come true. I have not gone blind or deaf, despite some early teen advice to the contrary. The only time I was ever involved in a car accident, I was taken to hospital, but no one seemed to take the slightest bit of notice as to whether I had on clean underwear or not. I have, as yet, been unable to test the nymph and heaven advice.)”

“Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a lot easier than it was.”

Sea Ought Easier Rivers Casts Fishes Despite Boat Lakes Fishing Advise Variables Like Love Love And Marriage

Author:Jessica Maxwell

“Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.”

Ifs Way Stills Hands Reality Easy Waiting Differences Blood Television Warm Despite Get Up Noses Friendly Righteousness Instruction Silk Endeavour Spirited

Author:A. A. Gill

“Political monopoly and economic monopoly are two sides of the same coin, two heads of the same monster. Despite all the claims to the contrary, the essential ideology of Neo-Conservatism is to preserve the status quo, with all of its injustices. Its public relations experts call for "freedom and democracy" without a framework of higher values. They fail to comprehend the need for a paradigm of justice and therefore are blind to what concerns most of the people in the world. This failure is the taproot of terrorism.”

“For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.”

Men Politics Economy Standards Resources Despite Liberalism High Standards

Book:Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity

Source: Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity

“We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general.”

Knows Stills Facts Bigs Today Games Sports Player Happenings Aspect Stupidity Despite Nhl Concussions Sports In General

Author:Jeremy Roenick

“Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.”

Atheism Victory Promise Positive Atheism Despite Inevitable Bliss Heavenly Solace Seductive Hypocritical

Author:Jack Kevorkian

“The very admission of the need to harmonize is an admission that the burden of proof is on the narratives, not on those who doubt them. What harmonizing shows is that despite appearances, the texts still might be true.”

Needs Stills Shows Might Religion Doubt Atheism Burden Appearance Proof Despite Being True Narrative Admission Burden Of Proof

Book:Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity

Source: Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity

“There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past. It is very suspicious of freedom, uncomfortable with diversity hostile to science, unfriendly to reason, contemptuous of personal autonomy. It sees America as a religious nation. It views patriotism as allegiance to God. It secretly adores coercion and conformity. Despite our constitution, despite the legacy of the Enlightenment, it appeals to millions of Americans and threatens our freedom.”

“The U.S. team has swept all the medals in the skeet shooting event. So despite our bad economy, it's nice to know our country has never been safer from an attack of skeets.”

Knows Country Funny Economy Nice Team Events Despite Our Country Shooting Olympics Medal London Olympics

Author:Conan O'Brien

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