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Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight from solid to gas. The volume of the gas is much greater than the volume of the solid. When a solid turns into a gas, we say it sublimes. The process is sublimation.

Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)

Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up.

Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh.

Cause you mean the world to me, you are my everything; I swear the only thing that matters, matters to me.

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.

Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security.

Certainly the Government has tried to handle the matter of our relations with the rest of the Continent in a very sensitive manner.

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

Certainly we must combine forces . South African troops are within the country.We raised this matter with Mrs [Margaret] Thatcher and Lord [Peter] Carrington when we met them and we wanted to get from them a definite commitment that they were going to get the South African troops out.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Change is never a matter of ability, it's always a matter of motivation.

Chance the Rapper: if you listen to his narrative and the subject matter he covers in his music, you can see that he's strong, courageous and shows vulnerability. He asks some very poignant questions in his music and is still very melodic. The harmony and the melody of the music allows you to also come in closer.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Chemistry is, well technically, chemistry is the study of matter. But I prefer to see it as the study of change.

Chess is a matter of daily training.

Chess is a matter of vanity.

Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.

[Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.

Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction.

Christianity is about the heart, and the Bible says that we cannot get to heaven on our own good works. No matter how good we are, we cannot be good enough, because God is perfect, and we're always going to be less than perfect.

Christina Aguilera and I are friends no matter what the media makes up.

Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.

Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?

Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.

Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Clearly it's not easy for woman in modern society, no matter where we live. We still have to go extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. We have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us.

Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Clearly understand, there isn't any situation that isn't made worse by worry. Worry never solves anything. Worry never prevents anything. Worry never heals anything. Worry serves only one purpose... it makes matters worse.

Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.

Comedy is all about the joke. Comedies usually don't do anything fancy with the camera [or] the lighting. It doesn't matter. It should never be fancy.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Color is a matter of taste and sensitivity.

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature, and my love of film...

Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.

[Coming back for Democrats] is simply a matter of energy and resources.

Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

Commitment is mental determination to accept only EXCELLENCE no matter how difficult, uncomfortable, or stressful.

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses

Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possibility rendered material, hope in an industrial-strength mixer.