"I'm not gonna give up, shut up, or let up, until I'm taken up... as a matter of fact, I'm just getting warmed up."
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"Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it."
"No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself."
"No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science."
"I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw."
"What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect."
"It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated."
"It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome."
"It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them."
"An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led."
"It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it."
"If you weren’t pretty, it wouldn’t matter what you said or didn’t say. That’s why you’re getting this attention."
"They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women."
"Never be shaken, no matter what happens or what others may say. Never be flustered; never lose confidence. This is the way we should strive to live our lives. Being able to do so is a sign of genuine character."
"Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed."
"It doesn't matter where anybody lives, we're all here."
"Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser."
"The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance."
"Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese."
"What we know matters but who we are matters more."