"New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter."
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"The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George."
"As a rapper, I don't freestyle. I used to freestyle when I used to get drunk, and it didn't matter."
"America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that."
"I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is."
"What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed."
"Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from."
"Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation."
"There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species."
"Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament."
"The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes."
"In the context of eternity, time doesn't matter."
"You must attach yourself spiritually to what you have placed in your imagination as a future fact, and never allow anyone, anything, any circumstance, no matter how persuasive their case, to alter what you know to be your destiny."
"If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on."
"Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter."
"In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives."
"No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace."
"Everyone's story matters."
"He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control."
"Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct."