"Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones."
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"When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter."
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"Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days."
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"Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist."
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"What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much."
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"No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today."
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"What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
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"Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility."
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"What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place."
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"It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too."
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"A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end."
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"I believe that the World Wide Web is, as a matter of fact, the noogenesis of the noosphere of the future. This is it!"
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"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?"
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"We've all been put to sleep by somebody who's told us all these wonderful facts that didn't matter because information without emotion is not retained."
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"Change is never a matter of ability, it's always a matter of motivation."
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"The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it"
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"It's not being homeless that matters. It's about who you are. Keep striving and you become somebody. Quit and you also become somebody.. but not the same person."
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"When the sales guys run the company, the product guys do not matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off."
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"Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well."
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"The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it."
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