"Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center."
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"The Carpetbaggers was the first big money I made. Money gave me a lot of freedom, but no matter how much you make there's always somebody chasing your ass for more."
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"The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them."
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"I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions ... to vote 'yes' to the constitution"
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"No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal."
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"The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever."
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"Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter."
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"What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
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"To be simple is no small matter."
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"It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life."
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"He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things."
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"A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us."
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"And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when."
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"If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be."
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"The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?"
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"Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters."
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"Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest."
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"What matters to you defines your mattering."
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"We have to get rid of excuses, no matter why you are the way you are, don't let it be an excuse to stay that way."
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"If we know God is for us, then it shouldn't matter how we feel, or what other people think of us."
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