"Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept."
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"I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is."
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"All that matters is love and work."
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"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living."
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"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."
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"An extraordinary life is all about daily, continuous improvements in the areas that matter most."
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"World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters."
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"Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up."
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"Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time."
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"...I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life!"
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"A life must be saved as long as it can be no matter whose it is."
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"No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable."
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"Don't always expect good things to happen. Your job is to forgive no matter what happens."
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"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."
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"What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting."
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"Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter."
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"In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me."
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"Put the past behind you, the present moment is all that matters, in the life of those who want to be happy."
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"It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway."
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"At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter."
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