"There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can."
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"We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table."
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"There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no natural crimes, only legal ones."
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"Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'"
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"No matter how old you are, if you're just not an empathetic person, it's a lot easier to concentrate solely on something that is injuring another person to even some score. Hopefully as people grow older, their ability to empathize deepens."
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"Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter."
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"No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move."
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"When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it."
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"The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!"
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"We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters."
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"Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends."
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"Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other."
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"I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us."
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"How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way."
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"People who always feel jolly, no matter where they are or what happens to themwho have the organ of hope preposterously developedwho are endowed with an uncongealable sanguine temperamentwho never feel concerned about the price of cornand who cannot, by any possibility, discover any but the bright side of a pictureare very apt to go to extremes, and exaggerate with 40-horse microscopic power."
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"If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment."
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"The mistakes don't matter. It's what you do when you mess up that does."
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"Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters."
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"Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity."
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"Nothing like being with people you’ve known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can’t create with the new ones. No matter how much you like that, it just isn’t the same."
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