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The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Accept Actually Any Artist Beautiful Biggest Biggest Challenge Challenge Constraints Craft Despite Fun Kind Make Medium Person Something Them

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Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: America Any Any Other Country Become Change Country Dangerous Day Despite Even Fact Help Life Majority More Offenders One Day Other Question Released Simple Stark Terms Than Them Truth Truth Is Vast Vast Majority Violent Want Will World Youth

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During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Anxiety Attorney Because Caring Caused Children Chose Contributing Despite Earning End Fact Family Felt Home Kids Knew Less Marriage Me Our Periods Rather Stay Still Than Work Worth

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Despite widely differing perspectives and agendas, there seems to be a remarkable global consensus that has built up over a fairly short period of time that climate change and ecology is one of the truly defining issues for humanity.

~Azim Premji

Topics: Agendas Built Change Climate Climate Change Consensus Defining Despite Ecology Fairly Global Humanity Issues Over Period Perspectives Remarkable Seems Short Short Period Time Truly Up Widely

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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.

~Balaji S. Srinivasan

Topics: Big Despite Eventually Failures Founders Great Makes Many More Record Succeed Them Track Track Record

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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.

~Balaji S. Srinivasan

Topics: Code Company Computer Computer Science Despite Experience Formed Having How Know Learned Math Really Science Until Years Years And Years

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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

Topics: Abolish Advantage After Child Child Labor Despite Economic Employed Interest Labor National Policy Removing Social

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You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times when the actual data may be telling you something different.

~Barry Ritholtz

Topics: Actual Based Data Despite Different Emotionally Investments Make May Natural Satisfying Something Tale Telling Tendency Times Want You

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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.

~Barry Ritholtz

Topics: Been Coverage Despite Done Excess Fees Funds Glam Hedge High Investors Long-Term Media Performance Poor Say Short Some Well

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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

~Bashar Al-Assad

Topics: Despite Diversity Each Ethnic Fabric Large Nation Region Social Within

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