If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.
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From Angel. Also mentioned in the DVD commentary for the Firefly episode, Objects in Space.Joss Whedon
Men must always have distinguished (e.g. in judicial matters) between hearsay and seeing with one’s own eyes and have preferred what one has seen to what he has merely heard from others. But the use of this distinction was originally limited to particular or subordinate matters. As regards the most weighty matters—the first things and the right way—the only source of knowledge was hearsay.
Leo Strauss
Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much.
Alice Moore Hubbard
Reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.
Leonardo da Vinci
In matters of style, swim with the current: in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
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.
Benjamin Disraeli
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
George Santayana
Whedon, Joss
Wheeler, John Archibald
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