Matter Quotes - Page 26

• The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Country, Toxic, Tone

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• We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.

  Mark Nepo

  Giving Up, What Matters, Needs

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• The Dream Lover is a historical novel at once expansively researched yet intimately imagined. George Sand may be the ultimate Berg heroine. 'A life not lived in truth,' Berg writes, 'is a life forfeited.' In this latest work, Elizabeth Berg has poured her own great gifts and her own great heart into the story of a woman determined to refuse any such forfeiture, no matter the cost.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Dream, Writing, Heart

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• There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them

  Marc Andreessen

  Balance, Trying, Demand

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• I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Order, Color

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• And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.

  Oscar Zeta Acosta

  Opinion, Mystery, Subjects

  Oscar Zeta Acosta (2013). “Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo”, p.30, Vintage

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• To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.

  Jimmy Wales

  Smart, School, Kids

  "Q&A" with Jimmy Wales, www.c-span.org. September 12, 2005.

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• In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

  John Searle

  Simple, Decision, Facts

  "Minds, Brains and Programs". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 1980.

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• The fossil fuel industry will inevitably have to experience major cutbacks and, over the longer term, near-total demise. There is simply no choice in the matter if we believe the research produced by climate scientists. The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

  Robert Pollin

  Believe, Yield, Oil

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• Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being and plunged into numberless trillions of forms so that it might find itself innumerably.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Secret, Delight, Might

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo (1989). “The Supramental Manifestation, and Other Writings”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• What Sri Chinmoy has done in his weightlifting is an absolute miracle. He is a man of unique strength, a spiritual man exemplifying mind over matter. He is not merely lifting a dumbbell – he is trying to lift the attitude of the world.

  Bill Pearl

  Spiritual, Attitude, Unique

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• No matter what you're trying to do there will be noise in the market... Before the race starts, I'm already focused on the victory.

  Sanya Richards-Ross

  Race, Victory, Trying

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• Nothing matters except life and the love you make.

  Chris Martin

  Love You, Nothing Matters

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• In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Children, School, Maintenance

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Machines, Levers, Way

  "Nationalism and Culture" by Rudolf Rocker, translated by Ray E. Chase, Book II, (Ch. 12), 1952.

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• No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

  Method Man

  Ghetto, Rapper, Where You Belong

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• The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary brain perishes, you can feel that that person did not totally perish from the earth... because they live on in a 'second neural home'?... In the wake of a human being's death, what survives is a set of afterglows, some brighter and some dimmer, in the collective brains of those who were dearest to them... Though the primary brain has been eclipsed, there is, in those who remain... a collective corona that still glows.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Home, Keys, Brain

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• If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one can pattern one's conduct. Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. Sometimes its triumphs are greater. What happens ultimately, you do not know. In such circumstances what can you do but cultivate an utter indifference to all values? Nothing matters. Nothing whatever.

  Khushwant Singh

  Men, Triumph, Doe

  Khushwant Singh (2009). “Train to Pakistan”, p.181, Penguin Books India

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• Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life it is important.

  Rahul Dravid

  Running, Games, Government

  "Does credibility matter to the BCCI?". Interview with Raunak Kapoor, www.espncricinfo.com. August 5, 2013.

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• What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...?

  Alison McGhee

  Hurt, Fighting, People

  Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.14, Candlewick Press

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• My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.

  Peter Thiel

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.9, Crown Business

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• Every university…seem[s] to reassure you that ‘it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it well.’ That is completely false. It does matter what you do. You should focus relentlessly at something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, Long, Focus

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• Sometimes it’s more a matter of collaboration which matters in a collection.

  Raf Simons

  Collaboration, Sometimes, Collections

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• I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

  Bob Iger

  Morning, World, Seven Days

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• It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.

  Emmet Fox

  Real, Law, Suffering

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