"There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I'm far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink."
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"Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty."
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"No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me"
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"The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on the backs of often underpaid immigrants of often dubious legal status."
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"Be Sure you Are Stepping to the Music you Hear - No Matter what Other People Think."
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"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."
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"He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what."
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"Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England." "Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?" "Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there." "Why?" "'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he."
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"Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct."
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"When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind."
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"We cannot both preach and administer financial matters."
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"I have often said that it doesn't matter to me if a student tells me he is a leader of the left, unless he is a good student. We need good students."
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"My excitement about my life and my future makes me happy, because I am a dreamer, and I always dream, no matter how many obstacles are in my way."
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"They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance."
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"It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way."
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"It is He who manifests as both matter and consciousness. There is no place where God is not. In every atom, in every living being He alone is present."
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"Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us."
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"Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music."
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"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."
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"Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it."
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