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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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"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."

"It is only in our decisions that we are important."

"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."

"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."

"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."

"You must not make hasty decisions because they make you do what you would not have done normally."

"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."

"The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision."

"A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture."

"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

"Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."

"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself."

"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
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