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"I comfortably can say that I am a Republican and I always will be a Republican because the Republican party is a big tent and there was not always things that I agreed with or they didn't agree with me many times. But the fact of the matter is that's the philosophy, and everything that I've heard is exactly the same."
"Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter."
"Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!"
"The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret."
"The fact would seem to be, if in my situation one may speak of facts, not only that I shall have to speak of things of which I cannot speak, but also, which is even more interesting, but also that I, which is if possible even more interesting, that I shall have to, I forget, no matter. And at the same time I am obliged to speak. I shall never be silent. Never."
"To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works."
"Stardom equals freedom. It's the only equation that matters."
"What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs."
"It doesn't matter what you're saying if you come from an honest place."
"No matter how tough the chase is, you should always have the dream you saw on the first day. It'll keep you motivated and rescue you (from any weak thoughts)."
"Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside."
"The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires."
"Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces."
"No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve"
"Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters."
"A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business."
"There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality."
"Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter."
"Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them."
"If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day."
