"I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary."
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"God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter."
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"In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration."
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"Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters."
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"You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. So, I'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when I teach students, I try and persuade them of the same."
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"I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful."
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"The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis."
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"It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period."
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"Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work."
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"To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god ."
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"A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it."
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"No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words."
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"The thing about writing is not to talk, but to do it; no matter how bad or even mediocre it is, the process and production is the thing, not the sitting and theorizing about how one should write ideally, or how well one could write if one really wanted to or had the time."
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"Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter."
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"Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!"
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"Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith."
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"Kant ... discovered "the scandal of reason," that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about."
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"He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods."
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"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
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"Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew here from another galaxy, no matter what you've pulled off the shelf, it'll be unlike anything we have on Earth."
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