"You just have to realize that no matter how delectable that meal looks, there's a chance that you might not get to eat it while it's hot."
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"Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children."
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"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."
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"No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is."
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"No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises."
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"No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process of deepening of theory has no limits."
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"Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters."
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"Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings."
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""Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual- and after all, wha is an individual? ". . . ." We can make a new one with the greatest of ease- as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.""
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"The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth."
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"There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations"
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"The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty."
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"Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help."
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"Theres nothing but spirit in music. Thats all it is. Yeah, theres a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, its all spirit."
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"The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning."
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"But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference."
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"Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions."
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"In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune."
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"Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state."
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"In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make."
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