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«Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life»
Author: Fernand Braudel
| About:
History
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«Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
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«Despite the fact that there are over eight million people on the island of Manhattan, there are times you still feel shipwrecked and alone. Times even the most resourceful survivor would feel the need to put a message in a bottle, or on an answering machi»
Author: Sex and the City
(TV series)
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«. . . he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was--a woman.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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«Despite the government's attempts to manipulate the vote, it does seem clear that the people have voted for change.»
«Despite the sight of all the miseries which affect us and hold us by the throat we have an irrepressible instinct which bears us up»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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affect, bears, despite, irrepressible, miseries, The Throat, throat
«Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?»
Author: Bob Dylan
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despite, Harpo, Harpo Marx, John Kennedy, Kennedy, Marx, napoleon, right on
«Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«Arms are instruments of ill omen. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. When great numbers of people are killed, one shou»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
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«And yet, to times in hope, my verse shall stand,Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.»
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