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Choice Quotes
"Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth."
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"Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel."
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"When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed."
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"We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance."
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"God cannot force you to accept Jesus Christ because God cannot force you to reject hell. Your choices are very limited, hell or paradise. Salvation is a choice. John 3:16"
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"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."
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"I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice."
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"There are plenty of lesbians in Hollywood, but they're not out. And that's their choice, but I can't do that, it's too important to me."
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"No child ever became 'good' by being told that she or he was bad or by beating her/him."
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"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."
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"If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at."
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"And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering."
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"I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices."
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"For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self - destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God."
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"We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves."
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"There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced."
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"Every morning, you have a choice either to make your day relaxed or stressful. To be thankful for what you have or to complain about what you don't have. To count your achievements and celebrate them, or to dwell on the mistakes of your past and feel bad. To take action to make things better, or to continue on in mediocrity."
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"What work do I have to do then?' said Will, but went on at once, 'No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else."
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"If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.You can climb it and cross to the other side.You can go around it.You can dig under it.You can fly over it.You can blow it up.You can ignore it and pretend it's not there.You can turn around and go back the way you came.Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home."
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"Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."
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"No one has the responsibility to be out to anyone but himself or herself. I made my choice a million years ago."
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"With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail."
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"It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice."
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"Men and women alike have convinced themselves of a dragging belief: that somehow women are incomplete without having children."
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"As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire."
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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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"They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."
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"I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made."
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"And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee."
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"Machinations are divined. Response is by nature, nurture, experience and if sought peer pressure. You are the owner of free will. Choose."
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"Every 'no' is a 'yes' to something."
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"As Charles Lamb says there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them."
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"We each possess the capacity for self-development. We also possess the capacity for self-destruction. The path that we chose to take " to pursue lightness or darkness " is the story that we take to our graves."
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"All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!"
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"But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things."
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"Again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering."
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