"It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance."
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"Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same."
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"Hotels are temporary people storage, no matter how big the boxes are. Remember that."
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"But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do."
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"You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life."
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"Everybody's life matters."
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"If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course."
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"It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear."
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"Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry."
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"But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do"
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"The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie."
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"The workmanship was better than the subject matter."
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"In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent."
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"If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!"
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"In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning."
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"You know, dark matter matters."
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"Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending."
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"There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters."
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"That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain."
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"Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent."
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