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Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for it ...

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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts...

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I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we bec...

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Alain de BottonReligion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

Nothing had ever existed between us except the possibility of something, and now even that was over.

Life is the sum of all your choices.

The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the univers...

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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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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Full Cupboard of Life

The more one does and sees and feels the more one is able to do and the more genuine may be one's ...

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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

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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The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wis...

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Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language when they have to experimen...

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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge fitter to bruise than to polish.

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

People "died" all the time. ... Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decis...

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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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There is nothing in the world so difficult as that task of making up one's mind. Who is there that h...

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The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometim...

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We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometim...

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A choice of pains. That's what living was all about.

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Audre LordeZami: A New Spelling of My Name

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made...

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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share...

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When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you kno...

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In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I ne...

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When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor...

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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision and nothing is so futile.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the diffe...

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Better to be without logic than without feeling.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past present and future state and at others w...

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The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in cha...

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BonoBono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

You must love him enough to trust his wishes, even if you disagree with them. You must respect him -...

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Brandon SandersonThe Well of Ascension

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only th...

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Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you st...

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There are more important things than being careful

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge sh...

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Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, howev...

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My spirit is willing to do what is right; and my flesh, I hope, is strong enough to accomplish the w...

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If I want to make political decisions, I should stand for election. If I want to do something in the...

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In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it ...

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Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution ... is as far as possib...

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She has gone back to Brooklyn,' her mother would say. And, as the train rolled past Macmire Bridge o...

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Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.

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Craig GroeschelDare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and char...

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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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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has...

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We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, wi...

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There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.

If you want to be a modern citizen of the world, you have to be minimally capable in technology. It'...

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I wondered quickly if I'd give my life so that a dragon could live. If someone offered me that deal,...

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This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making, a romantic in...

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Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all ...

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No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peek...

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Deepak ChopraThe Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore...

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When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything's OK. And then I go and make decisions, ...

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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Choices are the hinges of destiny.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what...

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Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who i...

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Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who i...

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You couldn't changed history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the...

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of...

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Elizabeth GilbertCommitted: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

No question is ever settled until it is settled right.

I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's...

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You can only predict things after they've happened.

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

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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active...

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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active...

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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active...

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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active...

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Then are there no rules at all, Lord?” Moneo's voice conveyed a faint hint of hysteria.Leto smiled t...

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For what do you hunger, Lord?” Moneo ventured.“For a humankind which can make truly long-term decisi...

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Frank HerbertGod Emperor of Dune

Necessity is not an established fact but an interpretation.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room...

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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are.

Decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You wil...

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I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days...

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Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your co...

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One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisio...

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When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

Once a decision was made I did not worry about it afterward.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to d...

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Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to dea...

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