"Never laughing too loudly in a restaurant no matter how good the joke."
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"With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters."
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"Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is."
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"It is not the life that matters, but the journey."
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"So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. It doesn't matter what others think -because that's what they will think, in any case."
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"It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging."
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"The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have."
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"Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters"
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"Thinking that everything must be bigger to matter is a problem. Small power emanates and disseminates in a very different way."
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"Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant"
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"How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption that de-idealizes the species and keeps us everlastingly mindful of the matter we are."
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"To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature."
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"The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater."
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"It's always fun to play the innocent, no matter what you're doing. If you feel like you're doing the right thing, you can get away with a lot comedically. I had definitely missed not having a conscience."
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"Him [my dad] bringing me to the clubhouse when I was young helped me out because I see what they do in baseball and what it's about. He pretty much told me all this stuff when I was younger. Now it's just a matter of doing it."
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"If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge."
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"How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?"
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"I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else."
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"I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matters which concern the whole nation; for that of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part; and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else."
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"We have to respect that any nominee to the Supreme Court would have to defer any comments on any matters which are either before the court or very likely to be before the court."
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