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People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on...

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We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement. We can choose to humble our...

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I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away an...

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You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building ...

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They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...an...

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All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young...

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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

My model for Kirk was Horatio Hornblower from the C.S. Forester sea stories. Shatner was open-minded...

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The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. ‘She is a girl,' she said, ...

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A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when the...

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Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a deci...

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I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, fo...

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Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or ...

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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his s...

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We can't always have our druthers.

In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, a...

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I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.

Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of h...

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Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this s...

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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning an...

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Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It...

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling im...

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Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in...

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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the la...

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Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderat...

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An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your...

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Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocent...

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I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.

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Jeanette WintersonOranges Are Not the Only Fruit

You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That...

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In my youth, the question chiefly important to me was—What sort of man shall I decide to be? At nine...

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Jerome K. JeromeSecond Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big ent...

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All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting ...

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Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge a...

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There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there is...

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What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have...

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There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice.

What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What...

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Jo WaltonWhat Makes This Book So Great

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you o...

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In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk a...

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Jodi PicoultChange of Heart

So you know what mean when I say that I don't think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You're ju...

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Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

In this world one is seldom reduced to make a selection between two alternatives. There are as many ...

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implie...

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There's a great difficulty in makingchoices if you have any imagination at all. Faced with such a mu...

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I was here on earth because I chose to be.

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John CheeverThe Stories of John Cheever

He had his choice, and he liked the worst.

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John CiardiThe Monster Den: or Look What Happened at My House — and to It

No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and l...

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I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

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John KeatsLetters of John Keats

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make h...

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But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most impor...

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He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any...

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People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolute...

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As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves y...

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Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints,...

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Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there ...

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When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and ...

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Here they were, on the only planetary surface on which you could walk freely, naked to the wind and ...

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They could do anything. That, however, was part of what made it difficult to bring [it] to a close. ...

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You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that'...

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May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me an...

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Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determ...

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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinct...

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What happens if your choice is misguided?' I ask, softly.Miss Moore takes a pear from the bowl and o...

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Libba BrayA Great and Terrible Beauty

There are no safe choices. Only other choices.

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Libba BrayA Great and Terrible Beauty

There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a diff...

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Libba BrayThe Sweet Far Thing

Surely you can entrust your task to your friends." "No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have tak...

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The myriad choices of his fateSet themselves out upon a plateFor him to chooseWhat had he to lose

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to man...

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I'm single because I was born that way.

[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we ...

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Malcolm GladwellBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

And my grandmother had bought them in preference to other books, just as she would have preferred to...

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If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most peopl...

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One of the most curious consequences of quantum physics is that a particle like an electron can seem...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

Nobody wanted to be sexless, but nobody wanted to be nothing but sex.

Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphr...

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Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the gov...

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Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

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Marina TsvetaevaСводные тетради

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it'...

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other,...

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A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That ...

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For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his...

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Over the years, I've come to recognize that democratization in Ethiopia is not just a matter of choi...

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Nothing can change for them, because they themselves can't change anymore.

One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to li...

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And [Thaler] noticed that when he had his fellow economists to dinner, they filled up on cashews, wh...

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Michael Lewis (author)The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for peop...

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Given greater freedom about where to send their children, parents of a kind would flock together and...

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.. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people d...

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