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"He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type."
"Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?"
"I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out."
"Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks."
"It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time."
"What happened in the United States election is not a matter for the United Kingdom, it is a matter for the United States and the United States authorities."
"No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis."
"Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding."
"Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle."
"The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope."
"Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan."
"You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make it better."
"If you ever hear yourself or anyone you care about starting to express the belief that a problem is permanent, it’s time to immediately shake that person loose. No matter what happens in your life, you’ve got to be able to believe, 'This, too, shall pass,' and that if you keep persisting, you’ll find a way."
"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost."
"If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do work that matters, this is it."
"You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor galaxy of one of the multiple trillions of universes. That's OK. It doesn't matter what form you take."
"The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?"
"In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness."
"It doesn't matter how much we know, it matters how clearly others can understand what we know."
"We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue."
