#spite

I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal. ↗

— Gary Johnson

#anymore #being #criminal #drink #handicap

There are over 2,000 direct clones of the Groupon business model. However, there's an equal amount of proof that the barriers to success are enormous. In spite of all those competitors, only a handful are remotely relevant. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#barriers #business #business model #clones #competitors

Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries. ↗

— John Negroponte

#committed #countries #democratic #democratic process #elections

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

#accomplished #action #affirmative #affirmative action #been

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#cannot #courage #despite #faced #history

Despite the painful changes we have had to make, we continue to believe in the St. Louis market. And we are hoping to add flights, in a careful way, as the economics of our business improve and the demands of the traveling public in St. Louis become clear. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#become #believe #business #careful #changes

You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with. ↗

— Marcus Allen

#careful #could #despite #extremely #good

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

— Charles Foster Bass

#best #children #despite #efforts #families

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale. ↗

— David Bohm

#communication #down #everywhere #feeling #general

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#fact #food #granted #half #hungry