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  • I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.
  • In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
  • What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.
  • This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
  • Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.
  • Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.
  • It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
  • It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
  • But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
  • John Lennon, who was a good friend of mine, he had one of the best senses of humor of any human being. And Keith Richards, fantastic sense of humor. They were smart, sharp. They had their own thoughts on matters.
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  • Albert Einstein Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Epictetus It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Horace A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Steve Jobs Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • Barbara Boxer Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Epictetus It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Joseph Addison It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Francis Bacon Small matters win great commendation.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Aaron Allston When all else fails, complicate matters.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • Angela Carter A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Bernard Malamud A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all a loneliness and men know it best.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Lord Chesterfield A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Sallust All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Basil Bunting All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
    On Poetry
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Alan K. Simpson Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
    Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Agnes Smedley But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Rush Limbaugh Character matters; leadership descends from character.
    Rush Limbaugh
    American radio talk show host (1951 - 2021)
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  • Anna Freud Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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