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• A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Water, Looks, Bent

  "Selected Essays".

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• What matters is what happens among the powerful.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Matter, Happens

  Source: www.madre.org

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• What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" - and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.

  Howard Zinn

  White, House, Sitting

  "The Israel Lobby, the Syrian War and the Meaning of Empire" by Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. September 12, 2016.

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• What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.

  Richard Bach

  Games, Use, Remember

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• What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far as I can.

  Josef Koudelka

  Photography, Photographer, Repeats

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• Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?

  E. C. Bentley

  Judging, World, Should

  E. C. Bentley (2015). “The Woman in Black”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Men, Self, Use

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.195, Grove Press

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• But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

  Emily Giffin

  Inspirational, Perfection, Facts

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.304, Macmillan

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• What matters is that someone—that you—know me that well. When a person can see into your soul, it's hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable. It's much easier being with someone who's just more of a casual friend.

  Richelle Mead

  Soul, Vulnerable, Easier

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.351, Penguin

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• What matters to you defines your mattering.

  John Green

  Hipster, Matter

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.405, Penguin

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• Thou art the Lord who slept upon the pillow, Thou art the Lord who soothed the furious sea, What matters beating wind and tossing billow If only we are in the boat with Thee? Hold us quiet through the age-long minute While Thou art silent and the wind is shrill : Can the boat sink while Thou, dear Lord, are in it; Can the heart faint that waiteth on Thy will?

  Amy Carmichael

  Art, Wind, Sea

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• You have the greatest chance of winning when your first commitment is to a total and enthusiastic involvement in the game itself. Enthusiasm is what matters most.

  John Brodie

  Commitment, Wrestling, Winning

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• In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Done, God Love

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• In my mind my obituary is done.It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it can be, the truth is what matters. It is what I should be remembered by, if I'm remembered at all. Remember the truth. that is all that matters

  James Frey

  Mind, Done, Awful

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.87, Rutgers University Press

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• In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Matter, Sex Drugs

  "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto". Book by Chuck Klosterman, 2003.

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• The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

  Frantz Fanon

  Block, Issues, Humanity

  Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

  Jodi Picoult

  Matter, Opinion, Ifs

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Nineteen Minutes: A novel”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.

  Vivian Gornick

  Writing, Able, Happened

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• Becoming a millionaire is not the end goal; your growth and development en-route is what matters.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Goal, Growth, Development

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from May 13, 2010

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• That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.

  John Green

  Real, Book, Helpful

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• It doesn't really matter whether we reflect the light through our authentic gifts or whether our authentic calling is to spread it. What matters is that tonight is that the world is dark, cold, and bleak. Your flame burns so brightly. Share your Love and warmth with others. Watch the Light return.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Healing, Dark, Light

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• It's possible to make sense of what's morally at stake in an appreciation of the gift of life, or the gift of a child, without necessarily presupposing that there is a giver. What matters is that the gift - in this case, the child - not be wholly our own doing, our own product.

  Michael Sandel

  Appreciation, Children, Stakes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If people are not safe, they will not make themselves vulnerable. If they feel too comfortable, they can become complacent or lose their curiosity. They can become intellectually lazy about what matters most.

  Erica Brown

  People, Lazy, Curiosity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Live your life with passion, with some drive, decide that you are going to push yourself. The last chapter to your life has not been written yet, and it doesn't matter about what happened yesterday. It doesn't matter about what happened to you, what matters is, 'what are you going to do about it?'

  Les Brown

  Passion, Yesterday, Live Your Life

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• Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.

  David Robinson

  Basketball, Defense, Interest

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