"It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?"
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"Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public."
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"No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power."
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"No matter what you do, you're always hearing something."
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"I don't believe there's any problem in this country, no matter how tough it is, that Americans, when they roll up their sleeves, can't completely ignore."
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"Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool."
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"Should have a Ph.d. on the subject of women. Anyhow the fact of the matter is I've failed usually. I'm exceptionally enamored with women; I respect them. Yet, in the same way as all men, I don't comprehend them."
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"Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched."
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"Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?"
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"The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other."
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"Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself."
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"Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount."
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"No matter how bad it is, or how bad it gets; I'm going to make it."
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"There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him."
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"The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."
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"Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones."
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"Trifles, trifles are what matter!"
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"If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth."
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"So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe."
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"There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail."
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