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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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And that is why I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good...

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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Red...

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I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their ...

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Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester to...

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Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most...

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We stand at the crossroads, each minute, each hour, each day, making choices. We choose the thoughts...

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Benjamin Franklinthe Art of Virtue: His Formula for Successful Living

Is all ordained? Foreknowledge is not fate, and we may choose our paths, yet fate says we may not ch...

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Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying ...

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If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel g...

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You can't claim to care about the welfare of children if you're shaming other parents for the choice...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I as...

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Everyone has choices to make no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out o...

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In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matter...

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Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and...

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You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?""I wear the chain I forged in life," repli...

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Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, temptin...

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Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's thechoices we make th...

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Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light....

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Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wr...

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Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it's your responsibility to ...

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You should have gone yourself, you ask for a Coke and they come back with orange drink. No one under...

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...When a choice will make a real difference in our lives—obvious or not—and when we are living in t...

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The greater the volume of thoughts you have to work with, the better the context you can create for ...

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David Allen (author)Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every...

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David Foster WallaceA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from begi...

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You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those ch...

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All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and format...

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Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the rig...

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I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our co...

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Those who indulge themselves in sense stimulation throughout their lives often end up exhausted, wit...

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I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of ...

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I've spent so much time these last years wondering what I'm supposed to be. A wife? A lover? A celib...

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It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his d...

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We make tactless remarks because we wish to hurt, break our legs because we do not wish to walk, mar...

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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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The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.' And always, ...

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We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving i...

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Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing...

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The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and unde...

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I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make cle...

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If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one wit...

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Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was ther...

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I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it m...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Elephant Vanishes

The world follows its own course. Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path. So it i...

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I swallowed hard. It was my life. And it was my choice how I decided to live it.

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Heather BrewerThe Cemetery Boys

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. ...

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