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"Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled - will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress."
"Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential."
"... to lovers innumerable things do not matter."
"How do you forget that someone else is another person? No matter who they are. I don't think that's an excuse."
"I want to live a really positive ass life. No matter what is in the media about me or what's said in the comments."
"There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political."
"Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended."
"If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe was at one time such, that living matter could not have existed in it, life being entirely incompatible with the gaseous state."
"He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and acquiesce when his opinion is freely overruled, will attain his object in the end."
"So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink."
"He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For one man of science, there are thousands who are not. What would have become of them? Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong, merely relative to this."
"Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know."
"We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to 'like' one another. Love governs the will: 'liking' is a matter of sense and sensibility. Nevertheless, if we really love others it will not be too hard to like them also."
"Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are."
"The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter."
"It's not just getting a goal that matters, but the quality of life you experience along the way."
"Some people try to deal with money by pretending it doesn't matter, but financial pressure is something that affects us all every day of our lives."
"I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment of my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment."
"If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever."
"Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself"
