“ Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason, either in football or in poetry, why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. ”
- Archibald MacLeish- Copy
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“ Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. ”
- Adam Ferguson- Copy
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“ Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition. ”
- Alexander Hamilton- Copy
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“ A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place. The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. ”
- Margaret Sanger- Copy
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“ It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences… ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around. ”
- Mary McCarthy- Copy
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“ Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ The government will join, notwithstanding its failure to prepare, its neglect in co-operating with its allies, or its inability to contribute. In the end it will join out of the necessity created by a pattern of uncertainty and indecision. It will not join as a leader but unnoticed at the back of the parade. ”
- Stephen Harper- Copy
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