#despite

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#best #children #despite #efforts #families

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. ↗

— Fernand Braudel

#contradictions #despite #difficulties #everything #framework

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

— Berkeley Breathed

#despite #moral #simply #tell #world

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

#child #clergy #dear #despite #god

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#despite #go #high #jobs #lack

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#being #cartoon #dark #decent #decent people

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#cities #despite #earth #evident #flooded

But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#breathtaking #capacity #challenges #democracy #despite

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory. ↗

— Justin Kaplan

#communal #despite #enormous #few #lines

What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#chinese #cold #cold war #despite #during