"No matter whether "I" feels victorious or defeated, elated or discouraged, these are mere phantoms compared to consciousness itself."
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"Nothing has more power to transform than awareness. When you become complete inside yourself, the worst conditions don't matter."
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"Even in the most bold and daring acts, courage is a matter of the heart."
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"It used to be that nobody would really argue with a woman, because what she thought (unless it was by way of providing helpful comments about one's own work) just didn't matter."
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"Take it from me: Elections matter."
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"Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter."
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"It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!"
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"If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment."
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"You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying."
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"When you die at 72, no matter what you die of, it's natural causes. Even if you get hit by a truck, it's natural causes. 'Cause if you was younger, you'd have got out the way!"
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"I am so happy that I married a comedy writer. He's never not without a joke. No matter where we are."
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"When you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know."
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"Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose."
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"Scientists say the European space probe that landed on the comet has detected organic matter. This means there could be either life in space or a Whole Foods. We just don't know."
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"Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures of domination."
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"If you've done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it's yours. And if people don't like it, then they just don't agree with you on that subject matter, and that's life."
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"Ideally, we'd want an Irishman coming in for the job, but, ideally it doesn't really matter."
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"It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail."
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"Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity."
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"There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field."
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