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"But night would come and with it the mountain moon and the lake would be moon - laned and I'd go out and sit in the grass and meditate facing west, wishing there were a Personal God in all this impersonal matter."
"Still, in international matters, the treaty changes nothing. That is, it doesn't prevent us from being friends with other countries, which indeed we are."
"To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction."
"Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window."
"Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for."
"We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier; but, as a matter of taste, we choose to stop short at this point."
"Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty."
"to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world."
"I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice."
"It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take."
"It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us."
"It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us," said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you."
"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."
"Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR."
"In this 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR [Digital Video Recorder]."
"You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that's not the part of them that piqued your interest."
"In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion."
"We account for all the matter and energy that we're familiar with, measure up how much gravity it should have, it's one-sixth of the gravity that's actually operating on the universe. We call that dark matter. It really should be called dark gravity. We don't know what that is."
"So this show [Cosmos] does not only operate on you intellectually, because telling you stories of how science works and why it works and what was discovered and why it matters, but combines that with stunning visualizations of the cosmos. This has the chance of affecting you intellectually and emotionally, and as well as even spiritually, because the wonder and awe of the universe are especially potent when presented in this way.""
"Part of me thinks that I've been called by the universe, to get all sort of spiritual about it. Like, I've had no actual say in the matter. The universe found me."
