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"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."
Robert Mugabe
"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."
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"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."
Franz Kafka
"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."
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"Don't water anything that you don't want to grow in your life."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"Don't water anything that you don't want to grow in your life."
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"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."
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"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."
Wayne Dyer
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."
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"When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something."
Hayao Miyazaki
"When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something."
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"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on."
Stephen Sondheim
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on."
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"I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me."
Sandra Bullock
"I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me."
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"Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent."
Frantz Fanon
"Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent."
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"I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward."
Fridtjof Nansen
"I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward."
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"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."
Robert Fritz
"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."
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"We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice."
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"If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast."
William Tecumseh Sherman
"If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast."
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"Every choice you make has an end result."
Zig Ziglar
"Every choice you make has an end result."
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"We must believe in free will, we have no choice."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"We must believe in free will, we have no choice."
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"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."
Graham Nelson
"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."
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"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."
Lindsey Graham
"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."
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"Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness."
Rob Glaser
"Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness."
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"You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be."
Marian Wright Edelman
"You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be."
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"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice."
William James
"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice."
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"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."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"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."
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"What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?"
Shimon Peres
"What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?"
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"After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation."
Nancy Sinatra
"After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation."
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"We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice."
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
"We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice."
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"I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice."
Jason Schwartzman
"I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice."
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"I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice."
Amy Irving
"I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice."
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"Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors."
John Frankenheimer
"Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors."
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"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."
John Corigliano
"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."
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"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
Neil Peart
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
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"Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play."
Willie Nelson
"Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play."
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"The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices."
Crystal Chappell
"The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices."
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"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent."
Socrates
"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent."
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"Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."
Oscar Wilde
"Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."
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"The key to your universe is that you can choose."
Frederick Carl Frieseke
"The key to your universe is that you can choose."
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"We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice."
Leon Kass
"We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice."
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"As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given."
Mary Lou Retton
"As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given."
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"Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?"
Sarah Dessen
"Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?"
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"No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice."
Valerie Jarrett
"No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice."
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"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
Theodor Adorno
"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
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"In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones."
Amber Frey
"In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones."
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"'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices."
Jackie Weaver
"'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices."
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"And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference."
Lord Robertson
"And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference."
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"Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make."
Solomon Burke
"Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make."
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"We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves."
Thomas Merton
"We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves."
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"'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales."
Howard Stern
"'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales."
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"Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times."
Nuno Bettencourt
"Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times."
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"I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place."
Louise Jameson
"I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place."
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"I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention."
Candice Bergen
"I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention."
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"Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents."
Tatyana Ali
"Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents."
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"2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation."
Marco Rubio
"2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation."
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