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• One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, Doors, Names

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• one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that because we are materially richer we must be emulated without question? What compels us to infect everyone else with our own sick urgency to change, soften and standardise? How can we have the effrontery to lord it over peoples who retain what we have lost - a sane awareness that what matters most is immeasurable?

  Dervla Murphy

  Race, Sick, Damage

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• Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.

  Michael Sandel

  Perfect, People, Democracy

  "What Money Can't Buy by Michael Sandel - review" by John Lanchester, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Paris, Joy, Hell

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• We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fashion, Cutting, Kissing

  "Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002". Book by Salman Rushdie, 2003.

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• This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations

  Aldo Leopold

  Pain, Disappointment, Mistake

  Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.53, Island Press

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• The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

  Adam Langer

  Stories, Spelling, Overrated

  Adam Langer (2013). “The Salinger Contract: A Novel”, p.250, Open Road Media

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• The widespread belief among politicians and pundits is that high test scores are everything. I strongly disagree. What matters most is character. Working hard, treating others with respect and honesty-those are the keys to success.

  Hal Urban

  Honesty, Character, Keys

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• What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has viewed carefully and by examination into their nature the things which happen in life? Persevere then until thou shalt have made these things thy own, as the stomach which is strengthened makes all things its own, as the blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Exercise, Opportunity

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.62, Lulu.com

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• Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you have to - you write because you can't not write. The rest is show-business. I can't state that too strongly. Just write - worry about the rest of it later, if you worry at all. What matters is what happens to you while you're writing the story, the poem, the play. The rest is show-business.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Confused, Writing, Play

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• Live, or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are, I've assigned myself a new obligation. I'm going to stop undoing, deconstructing, I'm going to start building. What matters is what you are doing when you die... I want to be building.

  Muriel Barbery

  Want, Building, Undoing

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September, 2008.

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• Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Order, Sometimes, Good Things

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• It doesn't matter how good the movie is. What matters is what it takes during the opening weekend. It's slightly distressing sometimes but that's how it works.

  Emma Thompson

  Weekend, Sometimes, Opening

  "Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks Talk SAVING MR. BANKS, Bringing the Essence of Their Characters to the Screen, and How P.L. Travers Would Have Reacted". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 9, 2013.

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• What matters to me is my own estimation, and Im very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what Ive done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.

  Jean Dujardin

  Christian, Hard Work, Guilt

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• Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere.

  Robin Morgan

  Taken, Inward, Spinning

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• It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.

  Ashley Judd

  Past, Giving, Starting Over

  "Ashley's Secret Life". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. July 9, 2006.

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• As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

  Alain de Botton

  Writing, Records, Matter

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• I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Respect, Eye, Men

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• May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

  May Sarton

  Fashion, Trying, May

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Family, Long Distance Relationship, Witty

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.3, Open Road Media

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• For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.

  Theresa May

  Government, Voters, Matter

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

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• Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

  Serena Williams

  Family, Games, Tennis

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• What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.

  Saint Augustine

  Doe, Rejoice, Findings

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• What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Attitude, Thinking

  "Politico" Interview, www.politico.com. March 24, 2010.

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• Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

  Alan Rosenberg

  Play, Bargaining, Fairs

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

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