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He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he ...

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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tra...

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Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wonderi...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is w...

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Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious conside...

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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt th...

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Where an opinion is general it is usually correct.

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter...

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Jared DiamondWhy Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality

How about this,' I said. 'We modify our plans with regard to ongoing facts as they become known to u...

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism the way you play it...

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It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.

The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose whi...

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The course of history is determined not by battles, by sieges, or usurpation, but by the individuals...

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to li...

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

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The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, ...

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Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capita...

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Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some...

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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide t...

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Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsi...

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Julian BarnesThe Sense of an Ending

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven...

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In case of doubt decide in favor of what is correct.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil but when you descend into hell you...

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If decisions were a choice between alternatives decisions would come easy. Decision is the selectio...

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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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Facts are stubborn things but statistics are more pliable.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up start ...

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There comes a time when you've got to say "Let's get off our asses and go ..." I have always found ...

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation and without being allowed...

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Decisions particularly important ones have always made me sleepy perhaps because I know that I wi...

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By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agre...

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Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while...

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Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

--So we reached our decisions simultaneously, and apart, and if I knew that Court was fighting a bat...

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They didn't even had the authority to choose an alcoholic beverage. They couldn't be deciding who de...

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

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

It is always thus impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevo...

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The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as ...

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I was brought up,' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all type...

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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~M...

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Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic an...

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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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Finally I reached into my pocket and flipped a quarter. Heads was Phlox, tails was Arthur. It came u...

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Michael ChabonThe Mysteries of Pittsburgh

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

My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox i...

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The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products ever...

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Michael PollanIn Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

I don't want the United States to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that ...

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You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.

In order to understand why George W. Bush doesn't get it, you have to take several strands of common...

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You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished ...

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illitera...

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Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as bei...

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We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no ...

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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but b...

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My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

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He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

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He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

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He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...

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you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take...

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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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But he was able to understand one thing: making decision was only the beginning of things. When some...

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But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. When so...

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A Warrior of Light does not postpone making decisions.

One faces the future with one's past.

Once the "what" is decided the "how" always follows. We must not make the "how" an excuse for not f...

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Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Wherever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.

Almost any established decision procedure is better than a resort to force; for when force is used, ...

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Choose always the way that seems the best however rough it may be custom will soon render it easy ...

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I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, l...

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As a man thinketh so is he and as a man chooseth so is he.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please-you can never ha...

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Silence. Montag sat like a carved white stone. The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly...

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The only difference between me and most people is that I'm perfectly aware that all my important dec...

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

When you're in a crisis of, you know, tremendous proportions, it's beyond any human capability to co...

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to ...

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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to ...

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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to ...

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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to ...

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