"All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter."
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"In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all."
"Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters."
"It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well."
"Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough."
"No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight."
"Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance."
"The Truth is not Arbitrary or a Matter of Opinion, but can be Investigated, and Those who Earnestly Search for the Truth will Find It. The Truth is Hidden to the Blind, but he who has the Mental Eye Sees the Truth."
"Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it."
"No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away."
"No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around."
"Be willing to take the first step, no matter how small it is. Concentrate on the fact that you are willing to learn. Absolute miracles will happen."
"I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you."
"Free will is to mind what chance is to matter."
"No matter what has happened, let today be new."
"No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers."
"Generally, management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. And to control many is the same as to control few. This is a matter of formations and signals."
"You're here so you're a Scientologist. Now we're going to make you into an expert auditor no matter what happens. We'd rather have you dead than incapable."
"Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration."
"It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world."