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In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
Stephen Gardiner

Poor, Public, Cities

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, Drink, Terrible

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.
Andrew Bernstein

Successful, Stress, Succeeding

Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.
Shimon Peres

Experience, End, Help

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
Walter Kaufmann

God, Respect, Job

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

Real, Passion, Why

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
Alfred de Musset

Help, Cannot, Infinity

For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself.
Lukas Foss

Mean, May, Thought

I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.
Valentino Garavani

Business, Fashion, Place

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.
Marlee Matlin

Life, Girl, Long

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Robert Graves

Good, Remarkable

In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.
Feisal Abdul Rauf

Happy, Country, American

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.
David Bohm

Feeling, Down, Moment

If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Love, God, Fact

I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
Lucian Freud

Happen, Paint, Exactly

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
Mary Astell

Truth, Knowledge, Woman

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.
Frank Langella

Acting, Start, Neuroses

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.
Sean Penn

Love, Best, Real

Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine that can be activated by a variety of agents - radiation, chemicals, inflammation and infection.
Paul Davies

Why, Research, Almost

There are over 2,000 direct clones of the Groupon business model. However, there's an equal amount of proof that the barriers to success are enormous. In spite of all those competitors, only a handful are remotely relevant.
Andrew Mason

Success, Business, Equal

We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.
Bashar al-Assad

Why, Difficult, Countries

The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.
Ellsworth Huntington

Live, Mind, Human

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
Paul Ricoeur

Hope, Freedom, Death

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Robert Graves

Good, Remarkable

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
A. J. Liebling

Life, Beauty, Christmas

I danced with passion to spite the music.
Gelsey Kirkland

Music, Passion, Danced

From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
Omar Bongo

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.
Omar Bongo

Political, Give, Wish

Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.
Agnes Macphail

Women, Done, Themselves

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

Father, Country, Service

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