"Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered."

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Source : Richard Hooker (1822). “The works of ... Richard Hooker. To which is prefixed the life of the author, by I. Walton”, p.335

Richard Hooker

#Taken Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.”

Source : "Gordon Strachan: 'And people think I've got a problem with the press...'". Interview with Richard Rae, www.independent.co.uk. August 21, 2010.
“We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.”
“The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism.”

Source : Speech in Amsterdam on March 12, 1941. "Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, 1966.
“The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.”
“Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.”
“I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that.”
“It was just this sudden call like it was an emergency. "Quick! You have to go do this... because it's Friends!" I was just, "Oh, my God, okay!"”
“Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made a miserable mess of it.”

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