"Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave."
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"What does it matter, all is grace."
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"When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations."
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"In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought."
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"Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient."
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"Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position."
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"I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter."
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"In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed."
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"What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter."
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"God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived."
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"Faith is never a matter of can or cannot, but rather, will or will not"
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"Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can't deal with them... But it's a complicated matter: Science studies what's at the edge of understanding, and what's at the edge of understanding is usually fairly simple. And it rarely reaches human affairs. Human affairs are way too complicated."
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"It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover."
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"What matters is what happens among the powerful."
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"Those who actually do have a valid claim to such special competence have a particular obligation to make very clear to the general public the limits of what is understood at any serious level; these limits are typically very narrow in matters of significance in human affairs."
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"Good health is often a matter of good judgement."
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"You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it."
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"As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line."
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"It doesn't matter how anything happens."
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"I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources."
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