"What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get."
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"I took everything to a big matter."
"No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide."
"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."
"Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick."
"A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change."
"'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least."
"No matter what path you choose, really walk it."
"But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature."
"It matters whether you see yourself as someone who is capable of effecting change or whether you see yourself as someone whose voice does not count. It matters whether you treat yourself with reverence or with carelessness. Every bit of work you do on yourself matters. Every time you choose love, it matters."
"Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom."
"They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones."
"Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance."
"Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting."
"Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites."
"The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions."
"No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting."
"To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation. One should seek out an audience that matters - and furthermore (another important qualification), it should not be seen as an audience, but as a community of common concern in which one hopes to participate constructively."
"No matter how far we go into the future, there will always be new things happening, new information coming in, new worlds to explore, a constantly expanding domain of life, consciousness, and memory."
"Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself."