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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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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
- Genuine
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- Nov 07, 2020
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Numbers can't speak for themselves, and data sets - no matter their scale - are still objects of human design.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.
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