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"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."
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"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."
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"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."
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"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
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"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."
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"That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong."
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Personal Development
"I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it."
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"Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make."
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"You're certain to get a decision in a trial."
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"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."
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"You must not make hasty decisions because they make you do what you would not have done normally."
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"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."
Business
"There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound."
Appearance
"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
World
"I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
Death
"Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity."
People
"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."
Decision-Making
"Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm."
Comfort
"You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness."
Identity
"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."
Virtue
"To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience..."
Childhood
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