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“In theory, if a gun is left at the scene of a crime, licensing and registration will allow a gun to be traced back to its owner. But, amazingly, despite police spending tens of thousands of man-hours administering these laws ... there is not even a single case where the laws have been instrumental in identifying someone who has committed a crime.”

“Hope is what sits by the window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there isn't an ounce of proof in tonight's black, black sky that it can possible come.”

Facts Waiting Black Sky Window Proof Despite Dawn Tonight

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“If we are one in purpose, spirit, principle and faith, then it doesn't really matter if we are always of the same opinion. Opinions change and can be easily altered by time, experience, and circumstance. But principles, purposes, spirituality, and faith are enduring values that can bind us as one despite disagreement or dispute.”

Ifs Matter Spirit Purpose Values Spirituality Opinion Principles Circumstances Endure Despite Disputes Disagreement Altered

Author:M. Russell Ballard

“Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.”

Ends Sky Intention Despite Horizon Best Intentions

Author:Tom Petty

“Having the courage to dream means following your calling today, in some way, despite the facts in your life that seem to be unmovable obstacles. And then, if your canvas is unfinished at the moment you die, at least you'll die an artist rather than a dabbler who talks about how she or he would truly like to live.”

Ifs Way Mean Moments Facts Dream Seems Today Artist Dies Calling Following Obstacles Despite Canvas Unfinished

Author:Alberto Villoldo

“Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?”

Humanity Grows Planets Materials Discipline Demand Limits Appearance Tendencies Despite Arrogance Delusion Toughness

Author:Lynn Margulis

“We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction.”

Names Causes Blame Plant Heavy Reactions Despite Insects Walt Allergic Pollen Allergic Reactions Goldenrod

Author:Janet Macunovich

“Despite disappointments, the Christian is obligated to pray for the sick because we are bidden to do so and because the crumb of our caring is but a morsel broken from the whole loaf of the Father's infinite and tender love.”

Whole Christian Father Broken Praying Sick Infinite Disappointment Caring Despite Crumbs Tender Love

Book:Catherine Marshall: Inspiration Writings

Source: Catherine Marshall: Inspiration Writings

“Yet the women's misery is socually invisible. Despite our education and accomplishments, we are expected to keep our mouths shut and accept our infertility treatments as consolation prize. Our jobs are supposed to be our highest priority. We are expected to overlook the connection between our disappointment, the impossible ideology of equality, and the contraception that makes that ideology appear to be possible.”

“The government is a heartbeat away from nationalizing health care based on deliberate misinformation about the nation's uninsured and despite the 100 percent failure rate of such fantastic reforms elsewhere on the globe.”

Government Care Nations Percent Rate Despite Reform Fantastic Health Care Elsewhere Globes Deliberate Heartbeat Misinformation

Author:David Limbaugh

“The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you're optimizing.”

“Despite the miracles of capitalism, it doesn't do well in popularity polls. One of the reasons is that capitalism is always evaluated against the non-existent, non-realizable utopias of socialism or communism. Any earthly system, when compared to a Utopia, will pale in comparison. But for the ordinary person, capitalism, with all of its warts, is superior to any system yet devised to deal with our everyday needs and desires.”

Needs Wells Persons Reason Desire Deals Ordinary Capitalism Miracle Everyday Socialism Superiors Despite Communism Comparison Pale Popularity Polls Utopia Ordinary Person Warts

Author:Walter E. Williams

“The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.”

Years Facts Past Rights Movement Racism Civil Rights Despite Tragic Courageous Honorable Promoting Civil Rights Movement Hustle Mindless

Author:Thomas Sowell

“I can remember the time when, if we wanted a house or housing, we relied on private enterprise. In fact, Americans built more square feet of housing per person than any other country on the face of the earth. Despite that remarkable accomplishment, more and more people are coming to believe that the only way we can have adequate housing is to use government to take the earnings from some and give these earnings, in the form of housing, to others.”

“Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.”

Men Littles Problem Bigs Government Normal Solve Despite Catastrophe

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Government grows despite repeated failures to serve the public well because government's purpose no longer is to serve the public. Government now serves primarily the interests of those who work for the government.”

Wells Government Purpose Grows Interest Despite Repeated Failure

Author:Jack Kelly

“Do not trust financial market risk models. Despite the predilection of some analysts to model the financial markets using sophisticated mathematics, the markets are governed by behavioral science, not physical science.”

Risk Models Mathematics Financial Despite Sophisticated Analysts Financial Markets Physical Science Market Risk

Author:Seth Klarman

“Successful investors must temper the arrogance of taking a stand with a large dose of humility, accepting that despite their efforts and care, they may in fact be wrong.”

May Facts Care Effort Accepting Successful Humility Despite Arrogance Investors Temper Dose

Author:Seth Klarman

“I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.”

Firsts Remember Faces Situation Knowing Endless Despite Streams Not Knowing Setback

Author:Ariel Pink

“For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion - even sexy - despite being overweight by conventional standards.”

Way Long Body Bigs Used Guy Interesting Style Standards Legs Sexy Statements Despite Proportion Tall Conventional Most Interesting Interesting Things Overweight Big Guys Long Legs

Author:Boy George

“Despite his profound incompetence on many levels, Obama has been an adept propagandist who has blamed capitalism for problems caused and magnified by socialist remedies to justify further socialist solutions. He's now doing the same thing all over again as his new socialist solutions are failing.”

Has Beens Problem Levels Failing Solutions Capitalism Profound Despite Justify Remedy Socialist Incompetence Adept Propagandist

Author:David Limbaugh

“The hedge fund known as "Long Term Capital Management" collapsed last fall through overconfidence in its highly leveraged methods, despite I.Q.'s of its principals that must have averaged 160. Smart people aren't exempt from professional disasters from overconfidence. Often, they just run aground in the more difficult voyages they choose, relying on their self-appraisals that they have superior talents and methods.”

“The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding that our goal is to thrive despite racism rather than fetishizing it is, in fact, the central ideological plank of people deemed "black conservatives." This is a coherent position, but that can be hard to perceive, given the way that race has been discussed in our land over the past 40 years or so.”

“People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is more companionable than the chaos which really governs our lives, a world without destination or purpose.”

People World Believe Running Purpose Evil Our Lives Chaos Despite Destination Propose Loose Change

Author:George Monbiot

“Thus even as servers die or are put to sleep, even as operating systems come and go, I can carry the work forward-despite all of the progress around me. [...] But really, no complaints-it's fun to wander around in the middle of so much waste and progress, and I'd rather be here than anywhere. You just have to keep working out how to travel light and stay portable.”

I Can Light Dies Fun Sleep Progress Middle Waste Work Out Despite Wander Complaints Comes And Goes Server Operating Systems Travel Light

Author:Paul Ford

“We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.”

People Thinking Sin Generations Judgment Despite Seats Sinner

Author:R. C. Sproul

“Despite what you may have been taught about Indians or Africans or ancient Celts, poor people are terrible stewards of their environment. For instance, if my kid were starving to death, I would happily feed her fresh panda.”

People Ifs May Has Beens Kids Poor Environment Taught Terrible Ancient Despite Instance Poor People Starving Stewards Pandas Celts

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“While sabotaging our reliable energy sources, Obama is also throwing as much federal money as he can at failed green energy projects, which are so ill-conceived that a reasonable person might conclude this goal is to waste money. Solyndra wasn't the only such failed enterprise, as we've shown. There were a dozen others, and despite these failures and the unconscionable waste, he has revealed nothing but a defiant determination to double down and spend more on other such projects. It's mind-blowing.”

Mind Persons Might Energy Goal Source Waste Projects Determination Down And Green Ill Despite Reasonable Enterprise Throwing Dozen Mind Blowing Energy Sources Green Energy

Author:David Limbaugh

“Saying that government is not the way to solve problems is not saying that humanity cannot solve its problems. What I've finally learned is this: Despite the obstacles created by governments, voluntary networks of private individuals - through voluntary exchange - solve all sorts of challenges.”

Way Problem Government Humanity Individual Challenges Obstacles Solve Despite

Author:John Stossel

“If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.”

Ifs Opportunity Failing Despite

Book:Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

“We only want what success we can get despite encouraging others to share our general view about reality.”

Want Reality Views Share Despite Encouraging Others

Author:Charlie Munger

“You can turn the negative around and use it as a motivating force in your lie. One of my biggest desires has always been to prove certain people wrong - to prove to them I can do it despite what they think or say.”

People Thinking I Can Use Lying Desire Certain Turns Force Can Do Prove Negative Despite I Can Do It

Author:Tony Dorsett

“Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.”

Age Old Age Tendencies Despite Inherent Gypsy Respectability

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.”

Loses Effort Understood Doctors Patient Despite Doctor Who Parts Of Life Best Effort

Author:Zig Ziglar

“As with Steinitz, Fischer's genius has often been concealed by controversies away from the board. Like Lasker, Fischer has raised chess to new financial heights despite frequent retreats from serious play. And, like Capablanca, Fischer is recognized by millions of non-players and has won the game many new enthusiasts.”

Play Games Millions Player Serious Genius Raised Financial Chess Despite Height Boards Retreat Controversy Concealed Fischer Capablanca

Author:Andrew Soltis

“Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.”

“Despite deficit rains, we have been successful in bringing down the inflation down from double digits to 3-4%”

Has Beens Successful Rain Despite Inflation Deficit

Author:Narendra Modi

“Rs 6500 crore disclosed under compliance window of black money & foreign assets law. People fear the law that has now been created. Stringent provisions will not be diluted despite pressures.”

People Law Black Window Pressure Despite Assets Provision Compliance

Author:Narendra Modi

“Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.”

“Courage is perhaps our most admirable trait. The man, or woman, who possesses it is able to plunge ahead, despite dangers, despite warnings, despite hazards of all kinds, to attack the task at hand. Often, it is indistinguishable from stupidity.”

Men Kind Hands Able Danger He Man Tasks Stupidity Despite All Kinds Warning Traits Admirable Plunge Hazards Task At Hand

Book:Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -

Source: Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -

“Despite not looking like a matinee idol, I feel like I have a lot to give. I've never had any trouble with women. People are always surprised with the romantic aspect of my movies.”

People Giving Feels Trouble Aspect Despite Idols

Author:John C. Reilly

“Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.”

Mean Skins Aging Bones Despite I Have Learned

Book:Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou

Source: Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou

“Henry Ford, who despite his immense wealth never owned a Cadillac. Never got a dinner!”

Wealth Dinner Despite Immense Cadillacs

Author:Red Buttons

“The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary.”

Cities Evidence Contrary Despite Halls Cracks Reporters Persist Deadline Typewriters Ripped Scotch Nicotine City Hall

Author:Paul Gray

“Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts.”

People Needs Deserve Court Supreme Despite Corporations Supreme Court Handouts

Author:Robert Reich

“Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world, a toe in the chilly waters of verisimilitude, no matter how often it is demonstrated that photographs can and do lie.”

World Stills Real Matter Lying Water Feet Honor Photography Photograph Despite Real World Toes Dubious Chilly

Book:Defining eye: women photographers of the 20th century : selections from the Helen Kornblum collection

Source: Defining eye: women photographers of the 20th century : selections from the Helen Kornblum collection

“A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irrational power of the photograph to bear away our faith.”

May Bears Models Photograph Critical Drawing Despite Faithful Irrational

Book:What Is Cinema?

Source: What Is Cinema?

“I don't know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I've become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Years Home Turns Parent Voice Despite Tone Mature

Author:Jenna Fischer

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