"Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God."
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"Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death."
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"No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person."
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"Stock speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same."
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"Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws."
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"True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness."
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"The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself."
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"No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes."
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"The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually."
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"Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness."
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"No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing."
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"If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place."
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"men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success"
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"No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it."
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"What will happen from now on? It doesn't matter. I can only focus on what's happening to me in this moment."
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"You can survive without a label... matter a fact, you're better off without one!"
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"Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material."
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"Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter."
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"O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform."
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"10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction."
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