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"And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"Pick a truth that blesses your life!"
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"Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off."
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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!"
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"God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives 'declining'."
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"With all these forks in the roads of our path, why do so many choose to take the knife?"
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"Your choice can either violate a spiritual principle of love or walk in it."
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"Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?"
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"When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war."
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"And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering."
Choice
"I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22."
Being
"The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career."
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"I was always good at math and science and physics."
Science
"I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree."
People
"I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948."
Education
"We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early."
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"But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering."
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"I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War."
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