"Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster."
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"You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will."
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"Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored."
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"For me personally it doesn't matter who is the manager, I'm going to go out there and play for the manager, and play for this uniform as a team."
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"Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese."
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"Right now, it's just a matter of getting my strength and endurance back. So far, no setbacks."
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"The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost."
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"Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church."
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"from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence."
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"Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness?"
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"I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings."
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"You can go anywhere in New York. There's always something to do in New York. There's always a place to eat no matter what time it is. There's always a place to work, a place to drink. It's conducive to my lifestyle. I don't know how to drive a car, so I like to be able to walk places."
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"Then of course there are bigger things that matter, like who do I see up there in the congregation? Do I see myself up there? Well, I don't."
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"Many companies routinely do things that are not important. They fail to prioritize. They get involved with details that don't matter."
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"Each firm held its rope; one by one, they realized that no matter how strongly they pulled, the balloon would eventually lift them off their feet."
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"Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what."
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"Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise."
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"The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me."
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"We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself."
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"I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied."
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