- Reason
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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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- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
After your debut, it doesn't matter whether your parents are actors or factory workers. All that matters is whether you can get the job done.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember telling President Carter on his first night, when I was escorting people around, that I was interested in continuing public service and that politics didn't matter - but it does, doesn't it?
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history. And whenever history is a matter of debate, it should be left in the hands of historians and experts.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is full of ups and downs. One needs to stay positive in life, no matter what.
- Imagine
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- Nov 07, 2020
We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.
- Middle East
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.
- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
- Nov 07, 2020
If something is really outrageous, it doesn't matter if it is one culture, or another, it's outrageous.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.
- Disorders
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once the notion of depression had begun to dominate the diagnostic armamentarium, it became but a matter of time before patients with relatively mild disorders of mood or anxiety would be entered into it.
- Behavior
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- Nov 07, 2020
At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small, with some seemingly insignificant breach of integrity that escalated. The little things do matter. It is not possible to profess righteousness while flirting with sin.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020