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"Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God."
"It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do."
"Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress."
"Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end."
"Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters."
"You’re never ready for the truth. No matter how much you think you know, it always takes you by surprise."
"In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke."
"- Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? - Yes. - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why."
"The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there."
"So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness."
"There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he "has read" them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter?"
"What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better."
"Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible."
"Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds."
"So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history."
"There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas."
"The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here."
"Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder."
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."
"No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic."
