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If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?

Leonard Ravenhill

God, Faith, Christian

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And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name?

Mark Strand

Mother, Children, Sleep

Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.434, Knopf

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I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity. My name is no longer my own. I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.

River Phoenix

Lying, Names, Psychology

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant?

Pio of Pietrelcina

Mean, Passing Moments, Heaven

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She looks at me out of the side of her uncovered eye. "Chess, Zombie: defending yourself from the move that hasn't happened yet. Does it matter that he doesn't light up through our eyepieces? That he missed us when he could have taken us own? If two possibilities are equally probable but mutually exclusive, which one matters the most? Which one do you bet your life on?

Rick Yancey

Moving, Taken, Eye

Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.263, Penguin

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In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what does it matter, as long as he puts his garbage out on Tuesdays?

Hal Higdon

Running, Distance, Men

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What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won't we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won't we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with us? Isn't that enough to make us happy?

Solanus Casey

Blessed, Doe, Matter

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In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the foetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier mankilling; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in the seed.

Tertullian

Men, Blood, Abortion

"The Sacred Writings of Tertullian".

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People who think I'm gay, some part of me thinks it's wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.'

Cory Booker

Gay, Thinking, People

"New Jersey’s Cory Booker: A perfect senator for ‘This Town’?". Interview with Jason Horowitz, www.washingtonpost.com. August 26, 2013.

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I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?

Bertrand Russell

Drunk, Alcohol, Lord

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But that's kind of an easy stance to be if you're a humor columnist, because you're tending to make fun of the government and the powerful. I'm sort of a soft-core libertarian in that my compass is generally pointing away from 'Let's let the government do this' Does it matter to me that it's Democrats who think we need more elaborate programs that involve shifting money from one group to another group or it's Republicans saying we need to take a harder look at what kinds of things people are watching on cable TV? Neither one of those things strikes me as a good idea.

Dave Barry

Fun, Powerful, Thinking

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What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories? ...Stories tell us who we are. What we’re capable of. When we go out looking for stories we are, I think, in many ways going in search of ourselves, trying to find understanding of our lives, and the people around us. Stories, and language tell us what’s important.

Kameron Hurley

Thinking, People, Understanding

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As long as you're remembering baby Jesus, does it matter when you're remembering him. That's what I'm saying about Christmas, I might not be in the mood for it December 25th.

Karl Pilkington

Funny, Baby, Jesus

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What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?

Stephen Covey

What Matters, Priorities, Doe

Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not function superbly... yes, beauty matters. Boy, does it matter. It is not surface, it is not an extra, it is the thing itself.

Stephen Fry

Boys, Style, Function

"Welcome to dork talk" by Stephen Fry, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2007.

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The first angle is, love questions not. It is not a beggar. ... When love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This is the real spiritual worship, the worship through love. Whether God is merciful is no longer questioned. He is God; He is my love. Whether God is omnipotent and almighty, limited or unlimited , is no longer questioned.

Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual, Real, Love Is

"The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda".

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Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

Mahatma Gandhi

Long, Goal, Religion

Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.104, Vintage

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People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?

Bob Dylan

People, Criticism, Doe

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If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?

Leonard Ravenhill

Doe, Matter, Please

Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.74, Bethany House

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To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.

Jean Renoir

Love, Art, Father

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What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

C. S. Lewis

Father, Long, Heaven

"A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works".

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But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the child in her womb? Dear God, we are lost, I tell you. What does it matter if you give it to me and it's wrong! There is no wrong! There is only desperation, and I would have it! I want to live forever with you.

Anne Rice

Mother, Children, Thinking

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.1263, Ballantine Books

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The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.

Albert Camus

Dream, Sweet, Party

Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.55, Vintage

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And now listen carefully. You in others-this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your consciousness has breathed and lived on and enjoyed throughout your life-your soul, your immortality, your life in others. And what now? You have always been in others and you will remain in others. And what does it matter to you if later on that is called your memory? This will be you-the you that enters the future and becomes a part of it.

Boris Pasternak

Memories, Soul, Matter

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If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.

James Franco

Long, Doe, Why Not

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