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• Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent support from the people of Ashfield. They have recognised that it is necessary to take difficult decisions, that newspapers do not always report fairly or accurately.

  Geoff Hoon

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• The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

  Lauryn Hill

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• Despite a campaign that was based on a very powerful promise of transparency, President Obama, and again in my view quite correctly, has used the state secrets argument in a variety of courts, as much as President Bush.

  Michael Hayden

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• We have all loved a guy we know has issues. Despite popular opinions, until we give it a final try, the relationship will always be in the ‘what if’ stage.

  Patti Stanger

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• Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

  Wilbur Smith

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• Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

  Berkeley Breathed

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• The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

  Constance Baker Motley

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• Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren’t civil war, they are democracy at work, and that’s beautiful.

  Sarah Palin

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• Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.

  Sarah Dessen

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• Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

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• I maintain, despite the moment’s evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection.

  Lewis Thomas

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• Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

  Adlai E. Stevenson II

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• Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

  Adlai E. Stevenson II

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• We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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• Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

  Joseph Barbera

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