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Decision Quotes
"I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision."
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"Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision."
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"Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm."
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"I believe my judgment has never been clearer. I have seen firsthand their potential, their strength of will, in a way you have not."You have loosed a chaotic, unstable variable into the Mosaic. They will destroy everything."It is a risk. They also may save everything."
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"At every given moment in your life, you have the option to move backwards with fears and doubts or to keep pushing forward with faith and courage. But don't forget to consider the positive demands of your inner-self while choosing on which direction to take."
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"So, I completely and utterly support David and Gillian's decision to go to Los Angeles, but I think that Vancouver is the perfect location for the show."
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"Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay."
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"That the decision is taken away from the voters, and as in 2000 turned over to the lawyers and the courts."
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"There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important."
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"We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place."
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"One of the most empowering things about being human is the fact that a single choice can change the entire direction of our lives. What are you choosing for yourself?"
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""Yield" was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988."
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"Every choice starts with a decision. Every decision starts with a thought. Every thought starts with a pre-conceived idea. It is up to you to decide what you do with each but always remember that the choice you make will result in the consequence you face."
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"Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none."
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"Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill."
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"I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me."
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"I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do."
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"My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think."
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"He steadied himself by resting one palm on her thigh and the other on the armrest, and rose to his knees. "I'll be damned."Possibly. But not today, I think."
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"Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want."
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"If you start to take Vienna take Vienna."
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"As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision."
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"It's just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision."
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"With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers."
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"The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open."
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"I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts' qualifications."
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"You're going to have to settle on one eventually. Why not save us both the hassle, close your eyes and point. Whoever you're pointing at will be our winner." "I've played that game once before. Ended up--" Paris shuddered. "Never mind. It's not good to wander down that particular memory trail. So no. Just no."
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"It is very easy for us to make choices in life but the most difficult part is to follow those choices through "."
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"It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision."
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"I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences."
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"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves."
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"Don't rush, just because you have reasons! Reason with the reasons and take definite action in the right direction, in haste, where needed, or with patience, where it is essential to do so! Mind your thought and think about your action!"
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"The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica."
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"I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision."
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"The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions."
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"Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament."
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"I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all."
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"There is only one way to make your dream a reality: make the decision and then not change it."
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