Matter Quotes - Page 15

• If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.

  Denis Donoghue

  Country, Experience, Division

  1986 We Irish.

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• It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

  William Gibson

  Statistics, Ifs

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• The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share the complete lack of empirical content which is associated with that certainty: The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

  Carl Gustav Hempel

  Math, Typical, Statistics

  Carl Gustav Hempel (2001). “The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality”, p.13, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Practice, Choices

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.75, Penguin

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• American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Serious, Literature

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• I think if I have one message, one thing before I die that most of the world would know, it would be that the event does not determine how to respond to the event. That is a purely personal matter. The way in which we respond will direct and influence the event more than the event itself.

  Virginia Satir

  Thinking, Events, Doe

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• I cannot, and will not, vote for Senator John McCain, as a matter of conscience.

  James Dobson

  Vote, Mccain, Senators

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• To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about God's kindness but says virtually nothing about his judgment... The fact is that the subject of divine wrath has become taboo in modern society, and Christians by and large have accepted the taboo and conditioned themselves never to raise the matter.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Sex, Kindness

  J. I. Packer (1973). “Knowing God”, Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press

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• Happy are they, who in the matter of marriage observe three rules. The first is to marry only in the Lord, and after prayer for God’s approval and blessing. The second is not to expect too much from their partners, and to remember that marriage is, after all, the union of two sinners, and not of two angels. The third rule is to strive first and foremost for one another’s sanctification. The more holy married people are, the happier they are.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Angel, Blessing

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• I am in the present and only the present matters to me

  Ariane Mnouchkine

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• What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

  David Brooks

  Way, Born

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• We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Tunes, Might, Corny

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• Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Law, Littles, Accomplish

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.66, Vintage

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• I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

  Warren Zevon

  Teacher

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• I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

  Glenn Frey

  Dad, Useless, Never Change

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• This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

  Mort Sahl

  Practice, Two Sides, Logic

  Mort Sahl (1976). “Heartland”, New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

  Clarence Darrow

  Reading, Law, Two

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• You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

  Caitlin Moran

  Thinking, Screw Ups, Paradise

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• Part of paying the price is the willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done. It comes from a declaration that you are going to get it done no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, no matter what comes up.

  Jack Canfield

  Jobs, Long, Done

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• True prosperity is an incredible gift. It's a gift YOU deserve. And no matter what anyone says, it's a gift that IS available to you - right now.

  Joe Vitale

  Prosperity, Incredibles, Right Now

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• With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit. People always ask about cameras but it doesn't matter what camera you have. You can have the most modern camera in the world but if you don't have an eye, the camera is worthless. Young people know more about modern cameras and lighting than I do. When I started out in photography I didn't own an exposure meter - I couldn't , they didn't exist! I had to guess.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Eye, People

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• When anything good happens to you in your day, give thanks. It doesn't matter how small it is, say thank you. When you get the perfect parking space, hear your favorite song on the radio, approach a light that turns green, or find an empty seat on the bus or train, say thank you. These are all good things that you are receiving from life.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Song, Space

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning.

  Denis Waitley

  Morning, Alarms, Knows

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• But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.

  Jay Inslee

  Race, Giving, Doe

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• To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.

  Brennan Manning

  Fall, Hands, Ends

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