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We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns. ↗

— Joseph Goebbels

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Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

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What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government. ↗

— Harold Washington

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Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

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

— Charles Foster Bass

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I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said. ↗

— Taye Diggs

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For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks. ↗

— Alexis Bledel

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

— Benjamin Jowett

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I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

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Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens quite often that parties actually, despite all the sound and fury, agree on the overall need to make sure that we live within our means as a country. ↗

— Nick Clegg

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