"And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters."
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"If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making."
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"There are no good wars or bad wars. The only thing bad about a war is to lose it. All wars have been fought for a so-called good Cause on both sides. But only the victor's Cause becomes history's Noble Cause. It's not a matter of who is right or who is wrong, it's a matter of who has the best generals and the better army!"
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"That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head."
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"A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety."
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"To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century."
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"There's no easy way around it, no matter how talented you are ... your talent is going to fail you if you're not skilled. If you don't study, if you don't work really hard and dedicate yourself to being better every single day, you 'll never be able to communicate with people your artistry the way that you want!"
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"There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness."
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"I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head."
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"Faith teaches that there is a right and wrong beyond mere opinion or desire. Most importantly, it teaches us that freedom is not an end in itself, that how freedom is exercised matters as much as freedom itself"
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"No matter what you are experiencing in life right now, trust that all is unfolding in your best interests."
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"It's not the size of the nose that matters, it's what's inside that counts."
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"With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive."
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"It doesn't matter who you are, it's what you do that takes you far."
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"It doesn't matter where you come from. It's what you do when you get here."
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"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it."
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"He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction."
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"If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters."
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"It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success."
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"Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes."
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