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There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can’t hurt you anymore when you’ve been completely dismantled.

There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned.

There are so many different fifteens. And eighteens. And forty-twos, for that matter. Mature fifteens and young fifteens and wise fifteens and lost fifteens. And angry fifteens.

There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.

There are no good wars or bad wars. The only thing bad about a war is to lose it. All wars have been fought for a so-called good Cause on both sides. But only the victor's Cause becomes history's Noble Cause. It's not a matter of who is right or who is wrong, it's a matter of who has the best generals and the better army!

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an utter insensibility of what becomes of the fortunes of their fellow-creatures, as if they were not partakers of the same nature, or had no lot or connection at all with the species.

There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can't do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that's not going to change.

There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling.

There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I'm far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink.

There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political.

There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an ability to make you feel that he is writing for you alone.

There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.

There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve.

There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity. Whoever creates new artistic conventions has found methods of interchange between people about matters which were incommunicable before. The capacity to do this has been the basis of the whole of human history.

The reason I became such a successful athlete was my mind was saying that no matter who you put up against me, I am better, I am the best.

There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each others throat.

There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter.

There is a compelling case showing us that we actually change people all the time. And when we fully realize this, we start to see how powerful we are to get others unstuck, see that their behavior matters, and start taking steps to create happiness and success in their lives.

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

There is also a reasonable tolerance: reason tolerates the reasonable. It is, however, almost tautological to call this 'tolerance' any longer, as it becomes a matter of course.

There is always something to miss, no matter where you are.

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the fact of the matter is that by ourselves we can only be consumed by our problems and suffer the shipwreck.

There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

There is no darkness in this place that we're bound Love is the only thing that matters

There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.

There is a spark of good in everybody, no matter how deeply it may be buried. It is the real you.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.

There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works.

There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.

There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

There is no such thing as inanimate matter...there is God or divinity in all matter and it is all living energy.

There is no physical body, no matter what the conditions, that cannot achieve an improved condition. Nothing else in your experience responds as quickly as your own physical body to your patterns of thought.