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Choice Quotes
"If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go."
113
"A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational."
100
"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."
97
"Don't water anything that you don't want to grow in your life."
86
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."
51
"A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game."
44
"I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me."
42
"I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward."
35
"We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice."
35
"We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice."
33
"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise."
33
"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice."
32
"I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing."
31
"Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require."
30
"Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness."
30
"A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything."
30
"What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make."
29
"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."
29
"And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference."
29
"After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation."
29
"The point of cities is multiplicity of choice."
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"It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions."
28
"It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes."
26
"The tree of possibilities: life as it reveals itself to a man arriving, astonished, at the threshold of his adult life: an abundant treetop canopy filled with bees singing. And he thinks he understands why she never showed him the letters: she wanted to hear the murmur of the tree by herself, without him, because he, Jean-Marc, represented the abolition of all possibilities, he was the reduction, (even though it was a happy reduction) of her life to a single possibility."
26
"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
25
"And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents."
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