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• I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Heartbroken, Hope, Mean

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?

  Bertrand Russell

  Drunk, Alcohol, Lord

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• People who think I'm gay, some part of me thinks it's wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.'

  Cory Booker

  Gay, Thinking, People

  "New Jersey’s Cory Booker: A perfect senator for ‘This Town’?". Interview with Jason Horowitz, www.washingtonpost.com. August 26, 2013.

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• If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Doe, Matter, Please

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.74, Bethany House

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• What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won't we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won't we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with us? Isn't that enough to make us happy?

  Solanus Casey

  Blessed, Doe, Matter

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• In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what does it matter, as long as he puts his garbage out on Tuesdays?

  Hal Higdon

  Running, Distance, Men

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• I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity. My name is no longer my own. I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.

  River Phoenix

  Lying, Names, Psychology

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name?

  Mark Strand

  Mother, Children, Sleep

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.434, Knopf

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• If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  God, Faith, Christian

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• As long as you're remembering baby Jesus, does it matter when you're remembering him. That's what I'm saying about Christmas, I might not be in the mood for it December 25th.

  Karl Pilkington

  Funny, Baby, Jesus

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• What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?

  Stephen Covey

  What Matters, Priorities, Doe

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?

  Bob Dylan

  People, Criticism, Doe

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• In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the foetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier mankilling; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in the seed.

  Tertullian

  Men, Blood, Abortion

  "The Sacred Writings of Tertullian".

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• As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not function superbly... yes, beauty matters. Boy, does it matter. It is not surface, it is not an extra, it is the thing itself.

  Stephen Fry

  Boys, Style, Function

  "Welcome to dork talk" by Stephen Fry, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2007.

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• Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant?

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Mean, Passing Moments, Heaven

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• The first angle is, love questions not. It is not a beggar. ... When love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This is the real spiritual worship, the worship through love. Whether God is merciful is no longer questioned. He is God; He is my love. Whether God is omnipotent and almighty, limited or unlimited , is no longer questioned.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Real, Love Is

  "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda".

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• But that's kind of an easy stance to be if you're a humor columnist, because you're tending to make fun of the government and the powerful. I'm sort of a soft-core libertarian in that my compass is generally pointing away from 'Let's let the government do this' Does it matter to me that it's Democrats who think we need more elaborate programs that involve shifting money from one group to another group or it's Republicans saying we need to take a harder look at what kinds of things people are watching on cable TV? Neither one of those things strikes me as a good idea.

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Powerful, Thinking

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• To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.

  Jean Renoir

  Love, Art, Father

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• Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally hurt and kill. Who cares if millions of mice and rats are vivisected? They're 'only rodents'. What does it matter if billions of chickens live in misery until they die in pain and fear? They're 'just chickens'. They aren't human, so they don't count. Victimizers lack empathy for their victims, but absence of empathy doesn't justify victimization, whether the victims are human or nonhuman.

  Joan Dunayer

  Hurt, Pain, Empathy

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• Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Long, Goal, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.104, Vintage

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• The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.

  Albert Camus

  Dream, Sweet, Party

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.55, Vintage

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• Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

  Jodi Picoult

  Doe, Matter, Speak

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• In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?

  Sharon Creech

  Doe, Matter, Lifetime

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• Time is not measured by the years that you live But by the deeds that you do and the joy that you give- And each day as it comes brings a chance to each one To love to the fullest, leaving nothing undone That would brighten the life or lighten the load Of some weary traveler lost on Life's Road- So what does it matter how long we may live If as long as we live we unselfishly give.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Years, Long, Giving

  Helen Steiner Rice (1988). “Sunshine of Joy”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• Does it matter whether you hate yourself? At least love your eyes that can see, your mind that can hear the music, the thunder of the wings.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Hate, Eye, Wings

  Robinson Jeffers, “Love The Wild Swan”

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