"Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it."
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"The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not."
"No matter what happens, you will never lose me, I am forever yours, Kitten, in this life or the next."
"You’ll never get rid of me, either… No matter which side of the grave we’re on. I’ll haunt you, chase you all around eternity, whatever it takes, but it’s you and me until the stars burn out."
"That's what vampires do, Kitten. We always come for what's ours, no matter the circumstances." Bones said."
"No matter what I think about this, Leila, you're my daughter, so you are not walking down that aisle alone."
"The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was."
"Nature must be interpreted as matter, energy, and information"
"I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter."
"Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought."
"The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living. Is goodness individual or collective, is love personal or impersonal, is intelligence yours, mine or somebody else? If it is yours or mine then it is not intelligence, or love, or goodness. If goodness is an affair of the individual or of the collective, according to one's particular preference or decision, then it is no longer goodness."
"As the world has to attain the fulfilment of eternal life, to me it does not in the least matter what I am called -'Enlightened One', 'Son of God', or something else. To me, it has no purpose - as little as when the Buddha said, 'I am the Enlightened One'."
"It's not the matter you cover so much as it is the manner in which you cover it."
"Remind yourself that you're bound to get better. Don't get down on yourself. Don't beat yourself up. It's the next opportunity that matters, not the last one."
"Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn’t working-no matter how hard they’ve worked to make it succeed."
"Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes."
"If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed."
"The spirit from which we act is the principal matter."
"No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants."
"Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become."