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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what you do in life, it's always a struggle, to first of all find who you are.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free themselves from the fishing-industrial complex and its Ponzi scheme, to stop subsidizing the fishing-industrial complex and awarding it fishing rights, when it should in fact pay for the privilege to fish.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to show off my struggle so that people accept that I'm black. No matter that every single room I go to, I'm usually the darkest person there... I kind of resent that mentality. I'm just an individual.
- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from - there's no substitute for hard work.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what poker book you read or poker show you watch, the topic of position will invariably be discussed and its importance stressed.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a guy that really likes to pile onto somebody. Doesn't really matter who it is.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one thing to talk about lack of diversity and lack of representation. But that doesn't matter if you're not good at what you're supposed to be doing.
- Philippines
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter whether you're guilty or not in Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020