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There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to clo...

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

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For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise a...

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I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You...

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It’s always fifty-fifty, Pete. Like tossing a coin. Either I’m wrong, or I’m right, either you bring...

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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?''That depends a good deal on where you...

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You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on you...

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But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can ...

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Libba BrayThe Sweet Far Thing

That had day changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had l...

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People do get hypnotized by the hard choices and stop looking at the alternatives. The will to be st...

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I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we ...

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Boys", she says, "just aren't very good at being afraid.

All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now.

Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You c...

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It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be ...

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

What need of prompt or hint when it is open to yourself to discern what needs to be done - and, if y...

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I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for ch...

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Where were we? I've forgotten. He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.Right. ...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Blind Assassin

They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of t...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctua...

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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil a...

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And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and kno...

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Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their...

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The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of lif...

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There’s only one way to know if people are good or evil: look at the choices they make. We each cont...

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... Up until then he had always wanted to be someone other than he was, but he didn't want to change...

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What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, i...

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Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and ...

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We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, eve...

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Muhammad AsadThe Road to Mecca

There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each...

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My mom used to say, ‘Life isn’t fair,’“ said Shadow.“Of course she did,” said Wednesday. “It’s one o...

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She wondered how she would feel to be a married woman. It would be the end of her life, she decided,...

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Neil GaimanThe Sleeper and the Spindle

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

Take the time to make some sense for what you wanna say,And cast your words away upon the waves.Sail...

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Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams...

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Og MandinoThe Greatest Miracle in World

When the universe compels me toward the best path to take, it never leaves me with "maybe," "should ...

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So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it...

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I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They...

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Why, Reshi?"The words poured out of Bast in a sudden gush. "Why did you stay there when it was so aw...

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She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular pat...

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Everyone not already following their own path would begin to feel dissatisfied with themselves and b...

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The only thing she could do now was to shed a few tears, feeling rather afraid of herself, an intell...

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I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy...

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Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want they choose...

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Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever befor...

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We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have...

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Rabih AlameddineAn Unnecessary Woman

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene ...

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The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've gotresponsibilities.

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Richard BachIllusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - wh...

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In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In mod...

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When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three cho...

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(...) 6,400,099,980 moments that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of thos...

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Look,” he said, “the point is there’s no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. ...

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The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affe...

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So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

The way we are living,timorous or bold,will have been our life.

The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I fi...

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For Time calls only once, and that determines all.

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his...

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The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. They are like string...

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...most of what bein human's about is making choices and payin the bills when they come due. Some of...

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Stephen KingDolores Claiborne

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

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Stephen KingRita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

But grownups were always in a turmoil, every possible action muddied over by thoughts of the consequ...

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The bottom line is that you have to choose who you are going to commit to-- that's the foundation of...

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August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a pers...

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We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not...

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Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own persona...

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To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectant...

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You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll n...

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The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across s...

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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do ...

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Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none.

Choose your love. Love your choice.

The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their con...

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Umberto EcoPostscript to the Name of the Rose

Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. {...} But each deed you do, eac...

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I realised, in all humility, that chosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to...

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Verghese KurienI Too Had a Dream

I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else availab...

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I grabbed hold of my Divergence like it was a hand outstretched to save me. I needed that word to te...

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It is impossible to erase my choices.

I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tatt...

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There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life f...

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You’re the one who has to live whit your choice" she says."Everyone else will get over it, move on, ...

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Veronica RothFour: A Divergent Story Collection

You're the one who has to live with your choice," she says. "Everyone else will get over it, move on...

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The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock ...

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Walker PercyLost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

It'd be great to be in a position where you can make choices regardless of money. My tastes are alwa...

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Choice Theory explains that, for all practical purposes, we choose everything we do.

My choices are rejections, since there is no other way,but what I reject is more numerous,denser, mo...

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To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which...

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I mean what does a democracy depend on? A democracy depends on the individual voter making an intell...

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It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. "I'l...

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Alexander McCall SmithTea Time for the Traditionally Built

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.

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André MauroisDisraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age

If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize t...

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Do you still think Mianaai controls the Radchaai through brainwashing or threats of execution? Those...

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It may not be nice to be good, 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I ...

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The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist...

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