"Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can."
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"Matter is the evolution of energy. First there is thought, then there is thought form, and then there is matter. Matter is only thought that has been thought upon by more."
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"If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?"
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"It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million."
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"I’m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me."
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"What matters is how many times you get up."
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"All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters."
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"Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other."
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"It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship."
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"This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self."
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"Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point."
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"The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much"
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"Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through."
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"Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure."
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"It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore."
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"In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected."
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"The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental."
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"No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for 'Before Coffee'."
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"I think what makes you feel so connected with certain writers isn't a matter of autobiographical detail, but that the emotions are real. The way some writers are able to channel themselves through the form."
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"Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction."
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