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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.


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is a matter which depends fully as much on the state
of t...
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When ducks already can
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BETTY SMITH Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.
KIERA CASS I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
PAUL AUSTER Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.
CASSANDRA CLARE A scoundrel will forever be a scoundrel, no matter which coat he wears.
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JOHANN VON GOETHE What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
JOHANN VON GOETHE One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
JOHANN VON GOETHE