"All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether"
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"I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?"
"When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks."
"I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore."
"I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me."
"The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself."
"There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate."
"It's not the failures in our life that define us, it's the moments when we decide that getting back up is all that matters"
"You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain."
"Treason is a matter of dates."
"It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction."
"No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness."
"Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it."
"Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it."
"What really matters is what happens in us, not to us."
"No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement."
"Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter."
"Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence."
"For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe."
"In matters of principle, stand like a rock."