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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
Ideas
Elias Canetti

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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Imagination
Thomas Carlyle

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Age and Aging
Thomas Carlyle

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The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
Food and Eating
Barbara Cartland

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It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
Food and Eating
Cato The Elder

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Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Fashion
Coco Chanel

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War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
Army and Navy
Georges Clemenceau

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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
Home
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Age and Aging
George William Curtis

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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
Self-improvement
John Dewey

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Man is more powerful than matter.
Circumstance
Benjamin Disraeli

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Truth
Albert Einstein

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
Love
T. S. Eliot

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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
Simplicity
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.
Victory
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
Greatness
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
Spirit and Spirituality
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Attitude
Epictetus

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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Success
William Feather

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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.
Importance
Malcolm S. Forbes

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
Business
Henry Ford

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Proverbs
R. Buckminster Fuller

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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Politicians and Politics
Charles De Gaulle

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No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.
Cooperation
Althea Gibson

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It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
Food and Eating
W. S. Gilbert

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun