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“Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.”

Political Wealth Generations Information Flow Remains China Enormous Despite Elites Ruling Legitimacy Younger Generation

Author:Tom Lantos

“Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with a woman. 'I’m looking for a fat, cross-eyed hunchback,' he explains, stifling a giggle. 'A prosthetic hump would do.' His delight evaporates when asked about his three grandchildren. 'Am I a doting grandfather?' He pauses. 'I’m a … something grandfather, yes.' The fact that De Bono remains unperturbed by this lack betrays an emotionally austere childhood, and his passions for play, toys, and bad jokes tell of the same deprivation.”

“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.”

“the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.”

Turns Winning Simple Effort Feminism Concepts Dresses Remains Despite Range Gargoyles

Book:Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

“Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.”

“The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.”

World Facts Humor Cat Remains Pursuit Despite Possessed Tails Chasing Elude Frantic Search For Truth Quarry

Author:Gina Barreca

“Despite some struggles of our own, Americas business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.”

World Struggle Economic Remains Envy Despite Economic Systems

Author:John S. Watson

“Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish reverie. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement.”

Persons Christian Evil Chance Essence Remains Illness Despite Orthodox Misfortunes God Image Reverie Devilish Disfigurement

Author:John of Kronstadt

“Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.”

Technology Seasons Remains Despite Unpredictable Reminders Hurricanes Humbling

Author:Diane Ackerman

“The countries that have collected the most development aid are also the ones that are in the worst shape. Despite the billions that have poured in to Africa, the continent remains poor.”

Country Poor Worst Development Shapes Remains Aids Billions Despite Continents Development Aid

Author:James Shikwati

“Despite their rising international acclaim, Sachal Studios remains virtually unknown in Pakistan. The ensemble is faced with a daunting task: to reclaim and reinvigorate an art that has lost its space in Pakistan's narrowing cultural sphere.”

Art Lost Space Tasks Remains International Studios Despite Rising Spheres Pakistan Ensemble Acclaim Daunting Tasks

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.”

Mind Mean Doe Dream Would Be Form Order Vision Path Taken Records Stage Remains Photograph Appearance Despite Curious Perceive Concrete Initials Metamorphosis

Author:Pablo Picasso

“... despite the limitations and problems inherent to photographic representation (and especially the representation of politics), it remains for me the most powerful and engaging medium today - one central to the development of cultural dialogue.”

Problem Today Powerful Development Remains Dialogue Mediums Despite Limitation Most Powerful Inherent Representation Engaging

Author:Richard Misrach

“Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too much excess capacity in the world.”

Thinking World Too Much Capacity Remains Conviction Despite Excess Inflation Deflation

Author:Gary Shilling

“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 this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.”

Knows Men Said Stills Found Bears Fit Drink Mass Mouths Relation Remains Painful Despite Brown Do You Know Bottles Toxic Eulogy Pints Stout Wry Vomiting Withstanding

Author:Flann O'Brien

“I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people, who, despite their constant exposure to messages contrary to the Gospel, continue to thirst for authenticity, goodness and truth. Much remains to be done, particularly on the level of preaching and catechesis in parishes and schools, if the new evangelization is to bear fruit for the renewal of ecclesial life in America.”

“God's plan remains God's plan despite our sin.”

Inspiration Faith Sin Plans Remains Christian Inspirational Despite God's Plan

Author:Christopher West

“Patterns of these UFOs appearance and behavior suggest a limited range of sizes and shapes of unidentified craft, despite the often-desperate efforts on the part of the American and other governments to discount them as nothing more substantial than mistakes made by naïve individuals. Their performance, observed repeatedly by expert witnesses, remains as far off the scale today as it was in the 1940s.”

Made Government Today Individual Effort Mistake Shapes Behavior Performances Remains Size Patterns Appearance Scales Despite Crafts Witness Range Experts Desperate Ufo Discounts

Author:Don Berliner

“Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.”

Strong Remains Despite Cheerful

Book:The mind and heart of Frederick Douglass: excerpts from speeches of the great Negro orator

Source: The mind and heart of Frederick Douglass: excerpts from speeches of the great Negro orator

“Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science”

Art Stills Economics Remains Despite Pretension

Author:Robert Kuttner

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