- 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.
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- Disinformation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that's secret, clandestine, loaded with such a supercargo of speculation, misinformation, disinformation and, for that matter, accurate revelations, creates an appetite.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You just - no matter how good things are, or how bad things could be, there's always going to be negativity or something like that going on, and you just gotta, you know, embrace it, I guess. But don't let it dictate kind of like how you're going to live.
- Fact
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
- Clean Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not trying to prevent new clean energy businesses from succeeding. Any business that's economical, that can succeed in the marketplace, any form of energy, we're all for. As a matter of fact, we're investing in quite a number of them, ourselves - whether that's ethanol, renewable fuel oil.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you control one house of Congress, you cannot abolish something like Obamacare, no matter how much pressure you apply.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.
- Falling
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- Nov 07, 2020
When X-rays traverse matter of any kind, this matter becomes a source of a radiation similar in character to that of the primary radiation falling upon it.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
- Countryside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020