"Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin."

Choice, Democracy, Feeling

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"Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin."

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"We live by choice and by necessity. We choose the mechanisms that are essential to ensure satisfaction of our baseline survival. What labor we willingly endure in order to meet our minimalistic subsistence requirements and what activities we elect to pursue in order to mollify our desire for living joyfully and attain self-realization defines our essential self's core personality."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"Pick a truth that blesses your life!"

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops."

John Buford, American Soldier

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"People which can't choose, should die... So far I don't see where can they go if they are lock in maze?They will search exit with hours!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth."

Joseph Barbera, American Cartoonist

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"God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives 'declining'."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"With all these forks in the roads of our path, why do so many choose to take the knife?"

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president."

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"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."

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"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

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"One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves."

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"Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age."

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"There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all."

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"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."

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"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are."

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"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."

Time, People, Disguise, Language