#matter

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The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.


Bertrand Russell


#civilised #even #great #importance #matter

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?


Bertrand Russell


#beautiful #been #chimney #does #hoot

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.


Bertrand Russell


#controversies #either #evidence #good #matters

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.


David O. Russell


#character #closer #doing #emotional #feel

Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.


Mark Russell


#candidate #ever #going #humor #just

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.


Paul Ryan


#back #belief #better #better off #brett

I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.


Marat Safin


#had #hated #i #losing #matter

No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.


Marat Safin


#happens #lot #matches #matter #new

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


#anything #being #demean #eyes #him

The one thing that matters is the effort.


Antoine de Saint-Exupery


#matters #one thing #the one thing #thing