"Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter."
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"Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless."
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"I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le."
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"If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music."
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"The naming of cats is a difficult matter"
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"What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority."
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"I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters."
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"I don't have you, and without you, it feels like what I do have doesn't matter."
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"Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters."
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"If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth."
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"The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible."
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"The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought."
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"You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know."
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"Every actor has a production company already. It's just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own production company."
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"No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot."
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"It doesn't matter what you achieve, if you don't keep growing you'll feel dead."
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"An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown"
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"No matter how qualified you are, you won't reach a better life until you imagine it."
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"So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time."
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"There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and that it is only a matter of time before biologists discover what it is that is causing us the trouble."
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