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"If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad."
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"I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets."
"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."
"The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero."
"Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a "work" of man."
"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."
"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."
"Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret."
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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."
"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."
"One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice."
"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
"This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue."
"I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants."
"Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information."
"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are."
"You're certain to get a decision in a trial."
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