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"Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids."
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"Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized."
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"Your choice can either violate a spiritual principle of love or walk in it."
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"Remember it is your choice, you can either wait for someone or end someone's waiting."
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"I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be."
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"Nobody makes anybody enlightened.Just tell them what you want to say,then let them decide for themselves."
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"There's no need to blame fate or destiny for a stupid decision."
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"The nature of love requires a recipient one who will respond by choice to the love given."
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"Always choose love over fear."
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"I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice."
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"No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice."
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"Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true."
Life
"But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there."
Freedom
"...many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. I remember a man in Salinas who in his middle years traveled to Honolulu and back, and that journey continued for the rest of his life. We could watch him in his rocking chair on his front porch, his eyes squinted, half-closed, endlessly traveling to Honolulu."
Memory
"Lanser had been in Belgium and France twenty years before and he tried not to think what he knew-that war is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing and sickness and tiredness, until at last it is over and nothing has changed except for new weariness and new hatreds."
War
"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."
Literature
"Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language."
Communication
"I always found in myself a dread of west and love of east. Where I ever got such an idea I cannot say, unless it could be that morning came over the peaks of the Gabilans and the night drifted back from the ridges of the Santa Lucias. It may be that the birth and death of the day had some part in my feeling about the two ranges of mountains."
Nature
"Seems to me you put too much stock in the affairs of children. It probably didn't mean anything." "Yes, it meant something. Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally?"
Life
"Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth an' not to no murder. You done right. Don't you kill nobody if you can help it."
Emotion
"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."
Discipline
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