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• Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision.

  Walter A. Shewhart

  Requirements, Mass, Precision

  "Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control". Book by Walter A. Shewhart, p. 120, 1931.

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• What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it

  Anita Hill

  People, Understanding, Needs

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• What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously.

  Catherine Doherty

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• Wedlock: the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Horse, Long, Bed

  In Daphne Fielding 'The Duchess of Jermyn Street' (1964) ch. 2

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• My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don’t even need to shrug. I simply don’t care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don’t matter.

  Marilyn French

  Fall, Mean, Men

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming.
  Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months
  to develop can be produced in a matter of days.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Powerful, Taken, Might

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• My soul is the bridge between spirit and body and, as such, is a uniter of opposites. Without soul at center, I would either transcend into spirit or become mired in matter.

  Marion Woodman

  Opposites, Bridges, Soul

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• Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

  Paul Goldberger

  Sadness, Delight, Architecture

  Paul Goldberger (2014). “Why Architecture Matters”, p.10, Yale University Press

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• The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Life, Christian, Religious

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• One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

  Army, Criminals, Answers

  "Josefina Vazquez Mota Challenges Mexico's Machismo". "El Universal" Newspaper, www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

  Alphonse Daudet

  Suffering, Preventing, Those You Love

  "The art of suffering" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2002.

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• Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.

  Frances Mayes

  Smell, Instinct

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• We have created a mindset in our society where everyone wants what they want when they want it. And if we don't get what we want when we want it, we feel ripped off. To make matters worse, we intensify our problems by continuously rehashing our woe-is-me story to the entire world. Whatever it is that has the potential to keep you from enjoying the day, understand that it's not the situation itself that is causing you to be unhappy. It's your thoughts and how you allow them to control you. It's what you choose to focus on that fuels your emotions and defines your reality.

  Steve Rizzo

  Reality, Woe Is Me, Focus

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• The idea isn't to find yourself another environment for tomorrow, but to be constantly creating the environment and community you want for yourself, no matter what may occur.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Ideas, Creating, Community

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• People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

  Michael Lewis

  Sports, Baseball, Thinking

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.

  Dan Savage

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• If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.

  Robin Ince

  Machines, Royal, Lectures

  "O come all ye non-faithful, and rejoice in science" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 06, 2009.

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• I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present

  Maya Lin

  Thinking, Creating, People

  Maya Lin (2016). “Boundaries”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world, the life, the reality it describes. No matter where I go, I’m still holding up a mirror.

  Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

  Reality, Mirrors, Stories

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• Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

  Richard Lewontin

  Commitment, Acceptance, Science

  "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

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• Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Animal, Men, Order

  George Gaylord Simpson (1959). “The Meaning of Evolution”

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• The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Real, Movement, Spirit

  Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

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• It’s time to write dangerous music. It’s time to take risks. It’s time to wear your heart on your sleeve, and sing about the things that actually matter to you. It’s time to bury the shackles of religious expectation and stop trying to put new clothes on the dead.

  John Mark McMillan

  Religious, Writing, Heart

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• It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for... What they're willing to lie for.

  David Shore

  Lying, What Matters, Focus

  "House: Three Stories". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Out of pure spite we pretty much always said the opposite of what the other said, no matter what they said, only to mark distance. That's how we ended up calling ourselves Satanists, despite the fact that we absolutely were not. There was not a single Satanist in the whole Black Metal scene in Norway in 1991-92.

  Varg Vikernes

  Distance, Opposites, Black

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