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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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"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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"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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"A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials."
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"A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture."
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"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
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"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."
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"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
"Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity."
People
"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
"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
"If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later."
Behavior
"He is as good as anybody in this parish! He is very particular, too, about going to church-yes, he is!''I am afeard nobody ever saw him there. I never did, certainly.''The reason of that is,' she said eagerly, 'that he goes in privately by the old tower door, just when the service commences, and sits at the back of the gallery. He told me so.'This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock. It was not only received with utter incredulity as regarded itself, but threw doubt on all the assurances that had preceded it."
Faith
"Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?"
Ethics
"The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a delicate poise between love and friendship - that period in the history of a love when alone it can be said to be unalloyed with pain."
Love
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