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"Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep coming up."
"How hard you work matters more than how much you make."
"While it is important to win, it’s even more important to remain undefeated no matter what happens."
"No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent."
"Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write."
"Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit"
"You see, no matter how important everything else is to magical success, belief is the most crucial."
"Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters."
"Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition."
"To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth."
"If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top."
"Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change."
"No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory."
"Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?"
"If you're sure of who you are it doesn't really matter what people call you, does it?"
"Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation."
"Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion."
"I will never stop loving you. No one can change that. No matter what happens later, I’ll still love you."
"A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession."
"What you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you! But you love yourself notwithstanding. And so you must love your neighbor, no matter how many faults you see in him."
