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"Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop."
"When you are Real, shabbiness doesn't matter."
"[Coming back for Democrats] is simply a matter of energy and resources."
"The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day."
"While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells."
"As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him."
"No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you're screwed because it's all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain't in it."
"When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds."
"Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days."
"Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste."
"Intentions are nice, but ultimately intentions don't really matter because they only exist inside you."
"Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows therefore that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors, near or distant."
"No matter what happens in the future, no matter where our paths take us, this moment will be ours."
"I feel so out of place here. No matter how much money the Republic throws at me, I will forever be the boy from the streets."
"Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called."
"Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter."
"No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness."
"Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it."
"Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter"
"In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time."
