Matter Quotes - Page 35

• As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the speed of light, eventually leading to a sublime, universe wide awakening.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Light, Sublime, Awakening

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• I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine . . . "Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned." That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.

  Samuel Beckett

  Believe, Ideas, Despair

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• Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

  Harry Houdini

  Men, Betrayed, Minors

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.43, 谷月社

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• The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul.

  Uwe Reinhardt

  Gdp, Issues, Soul

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• It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• A mission is not just a casual thing-it is not an alternative program in the Church. Neither is a mission a matter of choice any more than tithing is a choice, any more than sacrament meeting is a choice, any more than the Word of Wisdom is a choice. Of course, we have our free agency, and the Lord has given us choices. We can do as we please. We can go on a mission or we can remain home. But every normal young man is as much obligated to go on a mission as he is to pay his tithing, attend his meetings, keep the Sabbath day holy, and keep his life spotless and clean.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Home, Men, Agency

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• No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Justice, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.578, GENERAL PRESS

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• People of color have to do this work as a mater of everyday survival. And so long as they have to, who am I to act as if I have a choice in the matter? Especially when my future and that of my children in large part depends on the eradication of racism? There is no choice.

  Tim Wise

  Children, Color, Long

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• We think of cannabis as a drug, in accordance with international opinions. This means that even consuming small amounts can lead to very severe dependence. With alcohol or cigarettes however, sensibly limited consumption does not bear the risk of immediate addictiveness as this is the case with cannabis according to our opinion. With alcohol there surely is an element of a tradition. However, enjoyed in moderation, as supplement to a meal for example, alcohol is not something that causes immediate dependence. Still, there is a great need for prevention and information in this matter.

  Angela Merkel

  Mean, Marijuana, Thinking

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• No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Anger, May

  "The Homilies of Saint John Chrysostom: On the Acts of the Apostles".

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• Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.

  William Butler Yeats

  Past, Disrespect, Catholic

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• Life is a matter of choice. Everything we manifest in our day to day lives is the direct result of our choices along the way. Each choice automatically creates a consequence. From our choices other people's lives are influenced for better or worse.

  Dannion Brinkley

  Inspirational, Life, People

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• Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.

  Janet Morris

  Men, Quality, Meaning Of Life

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.8, Paradise Publishing

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• As I see it, out of a hundred marriages ninety-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution. They are not marriages. A marriage is only a real marriage when it grows out of love. Legal, illegal, does not matter. The real thing that matters is love.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Real, Ninety Nine

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• As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to the moment. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are tantalizing early prototypes for a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy ideal of lovers as brainy, passionate sparring partners. That the world teems with fantasies of Mr. Darcy and his ilk there is no doubt. How many of his type are to be found outside the pages of a novel, however, is another matter.

  Stephen Holden

  Pride, Games, Two

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• No matter who you are, no matter what greatness you've achieved in your life or what gifts you've given to the rest of humanity, if you criticize Israel, you must expect to become persona non grata. You should expect an utter onslaught of attacks.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Greatness, Israel, Humanity

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• Time is the only commodity that matters.

  Randy Pausch

  Time Management, Commodity, Good Judgement

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• You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Lying, Believe, Want Something

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• Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood.

  Alex Garland

  Chance, Infinite, Wells

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.62, Penguin

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• The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself

  Aidan Chambers

  Book, Needs, Speak

  Aidan Chambers (2010). “Postcards from No Man's Land”, p.271, Random House

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• I'm someone who always comes on the court no matter what's going on in my life. It's all about basketball and my teammates and my team. I don't let any distractions in, and I bring my best every night, regardless of what's going on or what people are talking about.

  Kris Humphries

  Basketball, Team, Night

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• Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Issues, Income, Fields

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• There is hurt that cannot be fixed by band aids or poetrybecause no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.

  Sarah Kay

  Hurt, Pain, Believe

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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• No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Heart, Looks, World

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• When today’s race is over, it's over. The only race that matters is the one coming up.

  Harry Gant

  Race, Today, Over It

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