"This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults."
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"Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever"
"In spite of what anyone says it’s women who make the rules."
"Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all."
"Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it."
"She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love."
"Things work in spite of me sometimes."
"it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear"
"We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are."
"In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian."
"Succeed in spite of management."
"The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them."
"The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America."
"To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love."
"Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love."
"There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches."