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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
By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
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- Nov 07, 2020
Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's cheesy, but having a pimple or a bad hair day isn't going to matter in five years. I don't always remember that, but I try.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a politician, but ISIS is a problem, and this matter should be solved very quickly. This will affect existing production, it will affect investment, it will affect the behaviour of people. It will affect the area tremendously.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like being weak in front of my mum or anyone for that matter. I don't like crying.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope is not a matter of age.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
- Half Hours
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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