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My humble tomb explore!
It bears: "Eternity, be thou
... MATTHEW ARNOLD Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his ... MATTHEW HENRY Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an... MATTHEW DESMOND I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in ... MATTHEW DESMOND The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam... MATTHEW DESMOND We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable h... MATTHEW DESMOND Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions. MATTHEW HENRY Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the tri... MATTHEW HENRY In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog yo... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify t... MATTHEW STEWART Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your ange... MATTHEW PRIOR I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address ho... MATTHEW DESMOND I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information. MATTHEW YGLESIAS He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you t... MATTHEW SWEET To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation,... MATTHEW SCULLY I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone h... MATTHEW VAUGHN I've been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mell... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do i... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by hi... MATTHEW HENRY There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So th... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photog... MATTHEW MODINE I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - m... MATTHEW WEINER Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. MATTHEW ARNOLD My rule is to break one sweat a day. MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY