#spite

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#advantage #after #child #child labor #despite

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#achieve #budget #clinton #despite #divided

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#gains #innovation #markets #most #organizations

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#belief #cop-out #evade #evaluate #even

Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

#clouded #compelling #decade #despite #even

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. ↗

— George Eliot

#experience #had #his #into #maxims

Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work. ↗

— John Engler

#doing #employees #hurdles #manufacturers #remarkable

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#attitudes #china #circumstances #desires #despite

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#being #darkness #despite #hope #light

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#bad days #click #days #despite #especially