- Optimistic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Matter Quotes
On what actually counts.
This page starts with a striking reframe of confinement as something that can happen mentally even to people who are physically free, and pairs it with career advice about simply landing that first entry-level role. For related thinking, see Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter.
- Egg
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike the interference of ordinary interest, power, or prejudice, which touches philosophy only at its outskirts and becomes at most a matter for philosophical tactics, the claim of revelation to the highest truth touches philosophy at its core and must affect its whole strategy.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
Girls are so in their head about their body image. It doesn't matter how confident you are - it's hormones!
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives in the book, the life of the writer, and the life of the reader.
- Luxury
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of us are lucky enough to choose what we wear, and some of us don't have that luxury, but we all are communicating something to the world around us by what we wear, no matter if it's sweatpants or a tuxedo.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything that happens today is like something in the past, but it's also unlike things in the past. We never know until an event happens if it's the similarities or differences that matter more.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what happens to us in life, we must get back on our feet and continue on the path.
- Nov 07, 2020