"Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live."
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"I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am."
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"One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them."
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"I liked him first, but it doesn't matter. I still like him. That doesn't matter either. Or at least, it's not supposed to."
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"So, you're telling me that no matter what, you can't be happy? Well, darling, it's no wonder you're miserable. It's what you want...So then try (to be happy)."
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"You're right . . . you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never can"
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"I have been so deeply, profoundly lucky to have friends in my life that have always just loved me exactly as I am no matter what time period I'm in."
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"The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference."
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"What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had."
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"There is no physical body, no matter what the conditions, that cannot achieve an improved condition. Nothing else in your experience responds as quickly as your own physical body to your patterns of thought."
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"Love, no matter how it's expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flawed. But that doesn't diminish it."
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"Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter."
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"It doesn't matter how many they kill," I told him. "And it's not awesome-it's wrong." "Then why do you talk about them all the time?" asked Max. "Because wrong is interesting."
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"A lot of people have a particular song that, no matter their mood, turns them on. With me, it's Eleanor Rigby."
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"Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself."
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"Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song."
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"I think we have to choose, what are the issues that really matter? We have to trust that."
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"In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself."
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"I never put myself in a box. I like to have various different types of songs and different genres and situational songs. No matter is going on, I have something for that time or era."
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"But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music."
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