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"In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of matter and the abstract mental processes of the most abstract branch of mathematical science."
"I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness."
"Ideas matter in New York. I am certain that more conversations in New York are about ideas than anywhere else. Not just vague theories, but ideas that New Yorkers have the will, and the clout, to do something about."
"Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters."
"Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?"
"It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder."
"Without allegiance to the Constitution it doesn't matter one hill of beans which party is in power!"
"A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project."
"I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone."
"You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it."
"And now listen carefully. You in others-this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your consciousness has breathed and lived on and enjoyed throughout your life-your soul, your immortality, your life in others. And what now? You have always been in others and you will remain in others. And what does it matter to you if later on that is called your memory? This will be you-the you that enters the future and becomes a part of it."
"The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail."
"It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business."
"The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them."
"I don't go by what the law say. The law's liable to say anything. I go by if it's right or not. It don't matter what the law say. I take and look at it for myself."
"When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all."
"Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God."
"Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case."
"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements."
"Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?"
