- Law
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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.
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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter how many times I've played 'Brown Sugar', I never get tired of playing it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what side of the spectrum you're on, you like to see your team fighting for the principle.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look around, there are very few really super quarterbacks. There are just very few. If you're lucky enough to have one, lucky enough that one of these Andrew Lucks is available when you have the top pick, then that's just a matter of luck. You can't attribute that to anything else.
- Economically
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how you slice it, limiting the SALT deduction forces New Jersey families to spend even more to subsidize Americans in less economically productive states, which take more than they ever give back to the federal government.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact of the matter, it's that Trump is getting money from blue-collar workers who send him checks for $250. Why? Who is Donald Trump? It's not who he is, it's who he isn't. Not what he is for, what he is against - that is, everything Washington is doing.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When anyone in Washington asks for a favor, no matter how little the favor means to you, act pained and get as much as you can in exchange - even if the person asking is the president of the United States.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Currently, many job seekers must check a box on their applications indicating whether they have a criminal history. These boxes are often used as proxies for job fitness, and job-seekers with criminal histories frequently find themselves screened out of contention. As a matter of basic fairness and also economic sense, it's time to ban the box.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone can't behave with their colleagues and can't be part of the culture, it doesn't matter how good they are at what they do; they have to be asked to leave.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society cannot escape what is essentially a moral question: When does human life deserve legal protection from the state? And society certainly cannot escape this dilemma by denying that it is fundamentally a moral issue, no matter what position one chooses.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020