Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: choice

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Quoted In The Grove:
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
~Thornton Wilder

With awareness come responsibility and choice.
~Amanda Lindhout

By choosing we learn to be responsible. By paying the price of our choices we learn to make better choices.
~Marsha Sinetar

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My mother told me when I was a kid that each time we get to what feels like the edge of a cliff, we have two choices: to turn around and run, or to jump. I have learned over time to jump ‒ and though it is scary, I know somewhere inside me that I will be caught.
~Maria Bello

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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 a compromise.
~Robert Fritz

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.
~Hugh Mackay

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
~Dag Hammarskjold

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When you’re different you’ve got two choices. You can stand out or you step back.
~Niall Williams

Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down.
~John C Maxwell

The key choices you make‒apart from the natural talent you already have‒will set you apart from others who have talent alone.
~John C Maxwell

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If I have the choice between experience and talent, I’m taking talent every time.
~John Calipari

When you have to make a choice between capacity and capability, I would go with capability.
~Joseph Dunford

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
~Peggy Noonan

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Each choice we make causes a ripple effect in our lives. When things happen to us, it is the reaction we choose that can create the difference between the sorrows of our past and the joy in our future.
~Chelle Thompson

sorrow must not be cultivated: it is a poor lifestyle choice.
~Tarun J Tejpal

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
~Khalil Gibran

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The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can’t.
~Harry Browne

Because to take away a man’s freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.
~Madeleine L’Engle

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
~David O McKay

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Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It’s not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline ‒ and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.
~Glennon Doyle Melton

To nourish the soul means to become kinder, more compassionate, wiser, and more loving, often through the making of difficult choices that foster growth rather than safety. The nourishment and growth of the soul is the very reason for human life.
~Joan Z Borysenko

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.
~Gary Zukav

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
~Nadia Boulanger

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.
~Stephen Covey

The 3 C’s of Life: Choices, Chances and Changes. You must make a choice to take a chance or you will never change.
~Zig Ziglar

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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
~Richard Bach

Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.
~Paolo Giordano

Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all.
~Michel de Montaigne

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You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.
~Lori Loughlin

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
~Samuel Johnson

What happens if your choice is misguided,
You must try to correct it.
But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t?
Then you must find a way to live with it.
~Libba Bray

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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
~John Dewey

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
~William Glasser

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I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
~Corliss Lamont

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances.
~John C Maxwell

It’s hard to regret making the choice that you think is right.
~Porter Robinson

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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You’re on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
~Dr Seuss

Choices, the greatest power we have,
Choices, the path which is destiny,
Choices, the result which is you…
~Joshua Fernandez

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.
~Anne Frank

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Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices
~Amin Maalouf

Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong.
~Colleen Hoover

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.
~George MacDonald

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But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
~Judah Smith

Hope is a moral choice.
~Jim Yong Kim

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.
~Cory Booker

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Choices can change our lives profoundly. The choice to mend a broken relationship, to say “yes” to a difficult assignment, to lay aside some important work to play with a child, to visit some forgotten person–these small choices may affect many lives eternally.
~Gloria Gaither

You don’t choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.
~Frederick Lenz

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
~Thomas Carlyle

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In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there’s no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
~John Kenneth Galbraith

Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it’s always interesting how many people toss the facts.
~Rebecca Solnit

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
~Dr Phil McGraw

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While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
~Stephen R Covey

Choice of attention ‒ to pay attention to this and ignore that ‒ is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
~W H Auden

The difficulty in life is the choice.
~George Moore

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Posted From The Grove

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
~James Madison

Today’s political leaders demonstrate their low opinion of the public with every social law they pass. They believe that, if given the right to chose, the citizenry will probably make the wrong choice. Legislators do not think any more in terms of persuading people; they feel the need to force their agenda on the public at the point of a bayonet and the barrel of a gun, in the name of the IRS, the SEC, the FDA, the DEA, the EPA, or a multitude of other ABCs of government authority.
~Mark Skousen

Greed, as law of the land, unaccountable without oversight, is more without conscience than lust.
~author unknown

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Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn’t separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.
~Donna Rice Hughes

I had to make a choice ‒ recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.
~Elizabeth Warren

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What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
~Ronald Reagan

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.
~Benjamin Carson

The nature of freedom of choice is that some people will misuse their responsibility and hurt themselves in the process. We should do our best to educate them, but without diminishing choice for everyone else.
~George McGovern

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No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.
~Valerie Jarrett

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.
~David Hume

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A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.
~Trent Lott

I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.
~Harry Reid

I am very sorry if I have caused any offence. It was a poor choice of costume.
~Prince Harry

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Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.
~Frantz Fanon

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.
~John Cleese

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.
~William James

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Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
~David O McKay

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
~Zhang Yimou

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us ‒ ah! what a dream, to live in that! ‒ the other stifles us at the first breath.
~Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Choice is a national instinct. This capitalist bedrock of our prosperity and security is threatened by a Labour Party that wants to overthrow the whole system.
~Liz Truss

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.
~Tony Blair

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America has this fascination with glorifying the villain and not talking about the trials and tribulations. We tell the story of the successful villain a lot of times, but we don’t tell the story of the people who don’t come out so successful, and we don’t tell the story of all the bystanders of that choice.
~Lecrae

It was a very difficult choice ‒ to say, “We’re not going to hold senior officials to account with the same laws that every other citizen in the country is held to,” or “This is a nation that believes in the rule of law.”
~Edward Snowden

Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.
~LL Cool J

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There’s a difference between being ignorant and being stupid… For me, an ignorant person is someone who makes the wrong decision or a bad choice because he or she does not have the proper facts. If you give that person the facts and the proper information you have alleviated that ignorance, and they make the right decision.
~Daryl Davis

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Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
~Jesse Ventura

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When certain causes become prairie fires, politicians make difficult choices, and often at the expense of someone like Jeremiah Wright and Walter Jenkins. That’s the cruel nature of American politics, where the end becomes the consummate objective, and sometimes the means to get there come at a great price.
~Bill Moyers

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When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.
~Mary Ruwart

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Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
~Anita Roddick

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In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.
~Dwight D Eisenhower

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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

Anytime I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice, whose parents choose Canada, I’m jealous. Because I think being able to choose it, rather than being Canadian by default, is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada.
~Justin Trudeau

My parents didn’t feel that they had any choice but to leave the Dominican Republic. They did, however, choose to become Americans, and they lived American values every day.
~Tom Perez (ex-Sec/Labor)

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. ‒ it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.
~Jennifer Ehle

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn’t have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I’m a pure American ‒ even more than people who are born here ‒ because I did it by choice as an adult.
~Jacques Pepin

Be ready to protect me because I have chosen to obey your laws.
~Psalm 119:173

As a global community, we face a choice. Do we want migration to be a source of prosperity and international solidarity, or a byword for inhumanity and social friction?
~Antonio Guterres

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Isolated decisions, however well-founded they might seem to the individual, and national go-it-alone moves must belong to the past. They should not be the 21st-century method of choice, particularly because the consequences of the European community’s actions must often be carried collectively.
~Helmut Kohl

The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together, share a common destiny and count in the world; or face the prospect of disunity and decline.
~Jose Manuel Barroso

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We’re always going to argue about abortion. It’s a hard choice and it’s controversial, and that’s why I’m pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices.
~Hillary Clinton

I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
~Barbara Bush

I’m against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman’s choice.
~Nancy Reagan

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
~Garrett Hardin

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.
~Tony Blair

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It’s not your body, it’s not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you.
~Norma McCorvey

There are young people having babies every day that cannot possibly take care of them, and, as people who believe that every life is beautiful, we need to make them aware of another choice ‒ to give that beautiful life up for adoption.
~John Schneider

The option to freeze one’s eggs is just about the most empowering choice a single woman who knows she wants to be a mother can make.
~Faith Salie

If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support… autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.
~Karen DeCrow

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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
~George Eliot

As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.
~Chuck Schumer

When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.
~Queen Rania of Jordan

The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices ‒ submit or fight.
~Nelson Mandela

I remember the day Ukraine became independent. I was 20; now I am over 40… I know better than anyone: no fight, no win.
~Vitali Klitschko

I demolish my bridges behind me ‒ then there is no choice but forward.
~Fridtjof Nansen

Here is no choice but either do or die.
~William Wallace (Braveheart of Scotland)

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All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
~Theodore Bikel

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.
~Stone Gossard

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There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
~Tony Blair

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent’s life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.
~Charles Krauthammer

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
~William James

Experience shows that the reliance on illegal, immoral, and inhumane interrogation techniques is universally a very poor choice.
~Peter Maurer

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
~Hubert H Humphrey

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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.
~Daniel Ellsberg

The conduct of President Bush’s war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.
~John Olver

In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices ‒ take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.
~Kay Granger

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Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past.
~Jose Rodriguez

Responsible statesmen have only one choice ‒ to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
~Yuri Andropov

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
~Oscar Wilde

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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education… no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
~Abraham Flexner

It’s not a choice between war and peace. It’s a choice between war and endless war. It’s not appeasement. I think it’s better even to call it American self-interest.
~Michael Scheuer

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
~Lester B Pearson

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It cannot be so very surprising that I adopted a Communist viewpoint in the 1930s; so many of my contemporaries made the same choice. But many of those who made that choice in those days changed sides when some of the worst features of Stalinism became apparent. I stayed the course.
~Kim Philby

It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work. Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government and we have two choices for who’s our leader. In fascism you only have one choice. That’s great. We have one more choice than the worst form of government.
~Colin Quinn

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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
~Peter Ustinov

The thing about American politics, as I’ve learned, is there is no choice.
~Rob Walton

I will offer a choice, not an echo.
~Barry Goldwater

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Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
~Ralph Nader

I’m an independent. I’m a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn’t fit the way they think. It doesn’t fit the way they live.
~John Avlon

I hate politics. It’s slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don’t like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you’re not on my side, you’re the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party… We need more parties and more choice.
~Mark Cuban

Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the… that is the choice we have on the party ballot.
~Gloria Steinem

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Ranked Choice Voting is simple, empowers voters, and rewards candidates who broaden support beyond their base.
~Dean Phillips

With ranked choice voting, every vote matters more than ever before, and it matters to every single candidate.
~Ritchie Torres

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.
~Herbert Marcuse

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To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
~Thomas Paine

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
~Margaret Thatcher

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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
~Adam Grant

Choice is strength. Having choice is also freedom.
~Coulter Watt

The entire world depends upon our individual choices.
~Duane Elgin

We had our chance, we made our choice, but history hasn’t voted yet.
~author unknown

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I trust Canadians to be able to look at the different parties, the different leaders, the plans, the teams, and make a responsible choice. And I’m very, very confident that’s exactly what Canadians are going to do.
~Justin Trudeau

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
~Tony Blair

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I don’t believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.
~Justin Welby

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
~Stephen Covey

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
~Robert Anton Wilson

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Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.
~Barack Obama

Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say ‘no’ to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.
~Henry Rollins

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If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.
~Margaret Atwood

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman’s truncheon over the anarchist’s bomb.
~Spiro T Agnew

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So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they’ve stabilized the oil price and that is tremendously important for the economies of the world. I think we have no choice but to work with the government of Saudi Arabia.
~Frank Carlucci

If we want Saudi Arabia to progress, we have no choice but to embrace change.
~Lubna Olayan

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Every day the choice between good and evil is presented to us in simple ways.
~William Edwyn Robert Sangster

The choice must always be made, if not one of the lesser evil, at least of the greater, not the perfect good.
~James Madison

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There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
~Denis Waitley

Knowing that you’re choosing all your actions brings clarity, responsibility, and accountability to your life.
~Madonna Gauding

Inaction is also a decision, a policy with consequence. The wish to keep out of it all is entirely understandable, but it is every bit as much a decision as acting.
~Tony Blair

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by their choice—their choice.
~Dwight Eisenhower

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It’s choice‒not chance‒that determines your destiny.
~Jean Nidetch

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
~William Jennings Bryan

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfill our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
~Paulo Coelho

Every choice you make has an end result.
~Zig Ziglar

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The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people’s lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that are there to help young girls make good choices, not to tell them what the good choice is. That is absolutely unconscionable.
~Rick Santorum

As a liberal, I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual liberty and freedom of choice.
~Richard Dawkins

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.
~Joyce Meyer

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government’s business.
~Jesse Ventura

If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.
~Michael Moore

If you want to believe that the government’s coming for our guns or that being gay is a choice and a sin or that ObamaCare signals the end of civilization or that cutting taxes for rich people is the path to a better America, that’s your choice. I’m never going to believe in any of that.
~James Carville

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
~John Adams

In this country, we believe in personal choice and individual liberty.
~Bill Hagerty

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Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them — and then, the opportunity to choose.
~C Wright Mills

I’ve come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
~George McGovern

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If you were given only one choice: To choose or not to choose, which would you choose
~Dr Shad Helmstetter

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~Vimeo‒Staff Pick: Choice (3:43) in praise of…

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~Darlene Mohekey : Choice CNZ (2:55) 3 minutes daft, unpredictable silliness, live onstage

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~Life Eternal: Alan Watts • Choice (3:26) a realization unfolding

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Economics is a choice between alternatives all the time. Those are the trade-offs.
~Paul Samuelson

You have to do things right to stay in business, and that’s not easy, and that’s a choice on a daily basis, the choices you make in how to run your business and how to have a point of differentiation and how to be true to your brand, how to offer something that people want and to offer something that you love.
~Venus Williams

Success is ultimately realized by people who make more good choices and recover quickly from their bad choices. Our personal and professional success depends on repeating good choices, day in and day out, and avoiding repetition of bad choices.
~David Cottrell

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Leadership is a choice, not a position.
~Stephen Covey

Unfortunately, to succeed in business, organizations need to make difficult choices all the time‒what to do and, more important, what not to do. The truth of the matter is that whenever we make a difficult choice, some people will win and some will lose. The winners will be happy and the losers unhappy. It’s impossible to make everybody happy all the time. If everybody in your organization is happy, that may be because you’re failing to lead them.
~Constantinos C Markides

Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.
~Seth Godin

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The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
~Robert Heller

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Every Morning You Have Two Choices: Continue To Sleep With Your Dreams, Or Wake Up and Chase Them.
~Carmelo Anthony

I think the American Dream used to be achieving one’s goals in your field of choice ‒ and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.
~Buzz Aldrin

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from‒when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
~Billie Jean King

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Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants as long as it’s black.
~Henry Ford

White shall not neutralize the black nor good
Compensate bad in man, absolve him so:
Life’s business being just the terrible choice.
~Robert Browning

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If you stop where you are,
you’ll die where you stand
Those choices you make
—to forever command.
~Kurt Philip Behm

There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
~Alan Greenspan

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The amount of money currently in your bank account is a fact. The amount you spend today is a choice. And the way you reconcile both is through clarity.
~Sarah Ban Breathnach

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
~Theodor W Adorno

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For an investment banker, the a payment that doubles with every square on the chessboard and one that doubles with every other square is more important than any other part of the contract. Who cares whether the payment is in pennies, pounds, or pesos?
~Paul Romer

The power of conscious choice is your profit-earning capital
Pay attention! Watch over that moment of power.
~Jalaluddin Rumi

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You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.
~Jim Rohn

The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice.
~Huda Kattan

If you’re early on in your career and they give you a a great mentor or higher pay, take the mentor every time. It’s not even close. And don’t even think about leaving that mentor until your learning curve peaks.
~Stanley Druckenmiller

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Work ethic is important because, unlike intelligence, athleticism, charisma, or any other natural attribute, it’s a choice.
~Mike Rowe

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Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.
~James E Faust

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
~Viktor E Frankl

Don’t look too far into the future, just look at tomorrow. One day at a time. Can you win tomorrow? Can you make progress? The answer is yes, you have a choice and tomorrow you’re going to win.
~Joe Wicks

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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
~Harrison Ford

I left Goldman Sachs. I was thinking about going to another Wall Street place. I didn’t want to do that. That was crazy. After you work on Wall Street, it’s a choice: would you rather work at McDonald’s or on the sell side? I would choose McDonald’s over the sell side.
~David Tepper

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If you look across the economy, if you have multiple players in an industry, you have more customization, more innovation, greater choice for consumers. The more you have consolidation, the less likely you are to invest in innovation. It becomes all about driving down cost and mass production. And that’s not good for innovation in an industry.
~Ro Khanna

Right to Work laws give workers a choice. Choice creates competition and competition breeds success. Forced unionization creates a monopoly, which only leads to stagnation.
~Tommy Tuberville

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Many kids turn to selling drugs. It’s not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.
~Richard Harris

Bringing in innovation and youth is not a bad thing: it is a courageous choice.
~Paolo Maldini (Italian footballer/exec)

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Often, farmers have difficulty finding secondary markets for their outgrades and have no choice but to leave fresh produce unharvested to rot in the field. Gleaning Network U.K. coordinates teams of volunteers with willing farmers across the U.K. to direct this fresh surplus produce to charities that redistribute it to people that need it most.
~Tristram Stuart

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We have such an embarrassment of riches when it comes to choice. Do you want to hike in the Alps? There are 300 pairs of shoes you can order within the next 10 minutes. You have your choice of everything.
~Nick Offerman

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That was my major reason for believing his candidacy was a good thing. However, I don’t endorse candidates, given the type of work that I do. My job is to hold people accountable.
~Tavis Smiley

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 people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
~Tariq Ramadan

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Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice. We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado? Journalists covering combat shoulder great responsibilities and face difficult choices. Sometimes they pay the ultimate price.
~Marie Colvin

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
~Menander

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The telephone lets anybody say what he wants to the person of his choice; he can conduct business, express love, or pick a quarrel. It is impossible for bureaucrats to define what people say to each other on the phone, even though they can interfere with ‒ or protect ‒ the privacy of their exchange.
~Ivan Illich

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A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude.
~Alexandra Kerry

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of ‘The Giver‘: the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.
~Lois Lowry

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From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.
~Nelson Mandela

People of African descent, most of us grew up accepting and loving Spider-Man. I still love Spider-Man. I still love the Incredible Hulk. I still have those characters that were white role models, superheroes, heroes ‒ whatever you want to call it. You basically had no choice but to accept those.
~Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther)

There came a point when I wanted to do television, and I didn’t think the Afro was going to play, so I made a very difficult choice ‒ to straighten my hair.
~Jami Floyd (attorney/journalist)

Make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You push for colour-blind casting; you draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are, not what colour your parents happen to be.
~Meghan Markle

Integration is a man’s ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.
~Stokely Carmichael

Black people are not a monolith. Black people have different thoughts. And sometimes people just need to hear the harsh truth ‒ even myself. But you can’t manufacture a hard truth and place it on somebody. When Kanye says slavery was a choice, that’s not a harsh truth.
~JPEGMAFIA

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You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
~Pat Riley (NBA coach)

We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That’s what gaming does.
~Warren Spector (game designer)

People just need to be open-minded enough to accept the game for what it is. If you don’t want to see it, then you’re never going to appreciate it, which is fine; it’s your choice.
~Millie Bright (soccer)

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People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.
~Evander Holyfield (WBA)

I’m as much of a human being as the rest of the world. But if I don’t train, I don’t win. If I don’t focus, I don’t win. So I don’t have a choice: I just have to run.
~Mo Farah (distance runner)

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If you want someone to show up and help you if something bad happens, you’d better tell someone where you’re going. And of course I wanted someone to know ‒ but I’d made a choice and it was a choice I was going to have to live with.
~Aron Ralston (mountaineer)

We are a religious family. My mum still goes to church every Sunday. There was a time when I was younger when I started getting games on a Sunday, so it came down to a choice between going to church and playing football. I think my mum knew what I really loved, and she did not stop me from going to football.
~Danny Welbeck

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Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn’t support that team, it’s their job to ruin you, to tell you you’re an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.
~Mark Hoppus

If you’re a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don’t have a choice.
~Jimmy Fallon

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If you’d given me the choice of going out and beating four men and smashing a goal in from thirty yards against Liverpool or going to bed with Miss World, it would have been a difficult choice. Luckily, I had both.
~George Best

How do you want to live your life? How do you want to play the game? Do you want to play in the big leagues or in the little leagues, in the majors or the minors? Are you going to play big or play small? It’s your choice.
~T Harv Eker

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§ VIDEO:
For me, it was a choice between band and drama ‒ and I hated the band teacher.
~Lucy Deakins (actress/lawyer)

Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
~Vidya Balan (Hindi actress)

I was a very shy and quiet person growing up, so it was just really difficult getting up on a stage. It was a perverse career choice really.
~Ardal O’Hanlon

You know, young actors say all the time, ‘Should I use my own life experience?’ And my response is, ‘What choice do you have?’
~David Mamet

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Every choice you make as an actor ends up being really influential on your life, because you’re spending a lot of time working on this project, and you want to make sure you’re making good choices and you’re not making them for the wrong reasons. I just want to be careful and not jump into anything.
~Michael Cera

I’ve seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.
~Rose McGowan

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I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you’re cast in that.
~Kevin McKidd

When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.
~Tamara Tunie

There are things that I would avoid, so I have the choice to say no, when I feel I’m repeating myself too much. But then there could be a reason to do that with a good director. So I think actors have to have a loose philosophy.
~Toby Jones

Nawazuddin Siddiqui is the best actor because his choice of roles are so diametrically opposite from each other, and he pulls it off almost every time so convincingly.
~Sushant Singh Rajput

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I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it’s raining, it’s terribly cold, I’m wet and I’m being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I’d probably take the latter. It’s warmer and generally more comfortable!
~Sam Neill

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If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn’t be that, I’d want to be a superhero.
~Vin Diesel

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress… period.
~Christine Lahti

There I was as a kid: a closeted homosexual who wants to be an actress. I had no choice! Wanting to act was something I was wired with when I was born. I never thought I would have success or celebrity, although I did want that. But what I wanted more than anything was to work.
~Jane Lynch

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When you receive a script and it leaps out at you and it’s breathing with its own heartbeat ‒ I suppose when you read something like that it’s not a choice of whether you do it or don’t. It feels like it chooses you, so you just do it.
~Sarah Lancashire

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.
~John Travolta

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
~Penelope Lively (British writer)

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I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that’s what theatre is, it’s an empty space, and it’s both limited and unlimited because the space is the space, but what you can do with people’s imaginations is really endless.
~Harold Prince

Every television show you go on is a choice.
~Joan Rivers

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The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.
~Keanu Reeves

I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you don’t want to be hanging above the maze watching the characters make the wrong choices because it’s frustrating. You actually want to be in the maze with them, making the turns at their side, that keeps it more exciting…I quite like to be in that maze.
~Christopher Nolan

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You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.
~Frederick Wiseman

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.
~John Frankenheimer

I feel every shot, every camera move, every frame, and the way you frame something and the choice of lens, I see all those things are really important on every shot.
~Roger Deakins

Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices ‒ and in particular, difficult cuts.
~David Benioff

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Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it ‒ the grain, how it feels, the texture… I think ‒ I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be ‒ it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.
~Keanu Reeves

I’m very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it’s becoming a choice ‒ and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.
~Christopher Nolan

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When I’m doing a movie, I’m not doing anything else. It’s all about the movie. I don’t have a wife. I don’t have a kid. Nothing can get in my way… I’ve made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.
~Quentin Tarantino

The paranormal bad boy is usually a fiercely loyal partner for the heroine. Once his sights are set on her, he doesn’t notice other women, and he’s utterly unconcerned with what anyone else thinks of his choice.
~Jeaniene Frost

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NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won’t run the spots on MTV, won’t run the advertising. It’s the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.
~Rob Zombie

You’ve got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.
~Ellen Barkin

I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That’s what I like the most.
~Jerry Goldsmith

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~Kate Enge: Choice Reaction (4:52) child custody choice, with tears

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~Matthew Macar: Choice (6:10) androids: with choice, or not

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~Omeleto: A Matter Of Choice (14:31) life, an option

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Omeleto: Choices (17:28) abortion, it’s complicated

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~,KIS KIS: Dilemma (10:02) a choice to be made

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What is portraiture? It’s choice. It’s the ability to position your body in the world for the world to celebrate you on your own terms.
~Kehinde Wiley

Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs.
~Martin Parr

Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you… the moment you’ve made a choice, you’re lying about something larger. ‘Lying’ is an ugly word. I don’t mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
~Richard Avedon

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When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won’t.
~Lucian Freud

Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.
~Kehinde Wiley

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Given the choice between instant gratification and the lasting satisfaction of earning the esteem of someone you respect and admire, all but the most small-minded would choose the latter.
~Mark Goulston

I always look at actresses who I most respect, and they make me think that you can make a choice in life. It’s whether or not you choose to go down the route of publicising your personal life. I choose not to.
~Vanessa Kirb

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No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.
~Neve Campbell

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.
~Angelina Jolie

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
~Fiona Apple

Make your important choices in life based on your values and your long-term objectives rather than on a need for approval… I make my own choices. I decide what I will and will not do. I am proud of my independence.
~Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I don’t want everyone to like me, and I don’t choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.
~Jean Dujardin

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I have learned not to take too much notice of those who disapprove of my lifestyle choices, because I know that I was not designed to be part of the crowd. If I am different, I make no apology, and I hope that others will have the courage to be themselves and stand up for what they believe in, fight for those who need protection, love who they want to love, and be proud of it.
~Clare Balding

There’s not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I’m not the typical standard, so that’s not even an option.
~America Ferrera

You have two choices in life ‒ you can dissolve into the main stream or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different you must strive to be what no one else but you can be. Don’t be so concerned with the opinions of others; those who follow the quiet, creative voice from within are both fortunate and correct.
~Bob Proctor

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When you are ten years old and people are screaming your name, trying to grab you at the Kids Choice Awards, and you go to the mall and groups of girls start following you around, it’s very unreal and like a dream. I can’t say I get used to it, it’s always been a little freaky.
~Aidan Gallagher

Child stars have nothing. They have no choice.
~Corey Feldman

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I find it interesting where grunge originated from and then where it was taken, which was high fashion. My dad [Kurt] was so poor that they kept going to Goodwill to get donated ripped jeans. It wasn’t a fashion decision; it was an ‘I don’t have any money, I have no other choice’ type of decision.
~Frances Bean Cobain

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.
~Cristiano Ronaldo

My fancy dress costume of choice is… something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.
~Ellie Goulding

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For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say ‘by choice’ because I have never ‘accidentally’ eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.
~Zig Ziglar

When I’ve lost weight, some fans get very upset because they want me to stay curvy. But my own self-worth and wellness regime has to do with my well-being and longevity, so if I make the choice to take care of myself, and the outcome is losing weight, it’s disappointing that there might be some backlash.
~Sara Ramirez

Fat loss is an all-out war. Give it 28 days ‒ only 28 days. Attack it with all you have. It’s not a lifestyle choice; it’s a battle. Lose fat and then get back into moderation. There’s another one for you: moderation. Revelation says it best: ‘You are lukewarm and I shall spit you out.’ Moderation is for sissies.
~Dan John

This is what people don’t understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It’s not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It’s because kids ‒ and this is the problem with school lunch right now ‒ are getting sugar, fat, empty calories ‒ lots of calories ‒ but no nutrition.
~Tom Colicchio

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Anorexia is a real disease. The choice you do have is asking for help.
~Ginger Zee

The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice.
~Michael Greger

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If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
~Lance Armstrong

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Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.
~W Mitchell

I often say now I don’t have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson’s, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.
~Michael J Fox

So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.
~Petra Nemcova

Talk with your doctor, make healthy lifestyle choices and most importantly, know your body ‒ as that can make all the difference in the world.
~Cynthia Nixon

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People’s choice to become vegan, from people I’ve spoken to, seems motivated by fear.
~Anthony Bourdain

Being vegan truly is the secret to my life’s joy and peace. I feel physically and spiritually better than I could have ever imagined knowing that I am doing everything I can to reduce animal suffering with simple lifestyle choices like being vegan, never wearing any products made from animals (like wool and leather), and buying only from companies that NEVER test their products or ingredients on animals.
~Alicia Silverstone

These days, I’m a hypocritical, philosophical vegetarian. Vegetarianism would be the right choice, but I really, really love meat.
~Tim Minchin

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Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don’t want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat’s collar before cooking.
~Mike Royko

If I had the smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
~Harold Wilson

The first step towards solving the omnivore’s dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of confidence that people will make good choices.
~Michael Pollan

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I am a Gujarati by birth, but having spent most of the growing up years in Mumbai, I can eat all kinds of food, from pizza to Thai, but given a choice, I want to stick to Indian.
~Himesh Reshammiya

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.
~Anthony Bourdain (@ge 61, Kaysersberg, France)

My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice is Guinness. My third choice ‒ would have to be Guinness.
~Peter O’Toole

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There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
~Valerie Bertinelli

My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering is a choice. You can be happier if you make some changes in your life.
~Alexandra Stoddard

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
~Aeschylus

Whenever I’m asked about the greatest lesson I’ve learned, my response is, ‘Happiness is a choice I make.’
~Gabrielle Bernstein

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.
~Ralph Marston

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
~Leo Buscaglia

I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.
~Sandra Bullock

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy.
~Angelina Jolie

I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it’s great. It’s really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.
~Drew Barrymore

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.
~William Glasser

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§ MUSIC:
As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn’t until my 30s that I began a profession in music.
~Tom Glazer

I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself. It came accidentally.
~Jenni Rivera

Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn’t feel like a job. So I did that.
~Jason Mraz

Take care to do what you like or you will be forced to like what you do.
~George Bernard Shaw

Your talent is in your choice.
~Stella Adler

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Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.
~Vladimir Horowitz

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I’m luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.
~Bryn Terfel

I chose busking because I didn’t want to be working for someone else. I wanted to work as I am. I feel like you ultimately do have a choice if you have your vision. So, I had a vision forever that I was going to play music. And there was no stopping that.
~Tash Sultana

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Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn’t allow us to listen to English music at home. That’s all I heard. I had no choice.
~Jenni Rivera

The one thing the blues don’t get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people’s throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.
~John Lee Hooker

The people have allowed me to ‒ they’ve respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just trying to mix different cultures together and things that I think are interesting.
~Pharrell Williams

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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
~Benjamin Spock

I think that our power of conscious origination is where free will comes in…We are originally choosing between the good and the less good, whether aware of it or not.
~Alfred North Whitehead

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You can’t make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what’s honest for you.
~Nicolas Cage

If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved ‒ bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.
~Marcel Duchamp

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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
~Thomas Merton

In Sliding Doors, the whole idea is that every choice you make, and every single thing that happens to you changes the trajectory of your life, and once you are put on that trajectory, there is no way back. But Groundhog Day ‒ which, I tell him, also happens to be a much better movie ‒ says the opposite. It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.
~David Levithan

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Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
~Theophile Gautier

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives ‒ choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
~Aristotle

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
~Lana Del Rey

You don’t decide to paint. It’s like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It’s a need, not a choice.
~Leonora Carrington

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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you’re following your passion.
~Darren Aronofsky

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
~Herbie Hancock

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.
~Tina Weymouth

Creative choice is your birthright. Please own it.
~John Bradshaw

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What is portraiture? It’s choice. It’s the ability to position your body in the world for the world to celebrate you on your own terms.
~Kehinde Wiley

Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs.
~Martin Parr

Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you… the moment you’ve made a choice, you’re lying about something larger. ‘Lying’ is an ugly word. I don’t mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
~Richard Avedon

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~Zac Efron: Ladies’ Choice (2:32) from “Hairspray“

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~DEVO: Freedom of Choice (3:25) from skateboard face-off to donuts

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~Mandy Moore: Ladies Choice (7:14) no video, best audio, long version

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~Walther Fantola: K’s Choice • not an addict (4:50) evidence to the contrary

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~Happy Accident Productions: George Jones • Choices (3:26) country song about consequences

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~Sïan Able: The Choice Is Yours (4:14) Christian, interesting images for choice

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~Film 44: Eisfabrik • The Choice (4:49) concert footage, message music

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~EverHowtik: Jack Stauber • Choice (0:39) short, fan made, better because of it

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~TopPop: People’s Choice • Do It Any Way You Wanna (1975) music for the pleasure of making music

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~Choices: Less Is More (5:14) the message: we shared more when we had less, static image to a thumpin’ back beat, danceable

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~the quorum: Teddy Pendergrass • You’re My Choice Tonight (3:04) opening credits to a movie

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~Fatboy Slim: Bootsy Collins • Weapon Of Choice (3:45) hard to categorize, call it a surprise

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How many times have you said, ‘This is it. I’ve finally found my one true love’? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune… Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing ‒ the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture ‒ can make love shatter, stall or fade away.
~Haruki Murakami

Most women have jobs that require them to leave the house. A cat is actually a perfect pet. You get the love and companionship of a creature covered in fur, and you don’t have to take it for a walk, and it can feed itself. Less maintenance. Surely any man can appreciate the practicality of this choice.
~Iliza Shlesinger

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about.
~Ravi Zacharias

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I’ll tell you this: Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality. And the protections that we have, for religion ‒we protect religion‒ and talk about a lifestyle choice! That is absolutely a choice. Gay people don’t choose to be gay. At what age did you choose not to be gay?
~Jon Stewart

I don’t blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they’ve made a choice to be gay, because they don’t.
~James Dobson

I learned a lot more about transgender people. It’s not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.
~Mercedes Ruehl

Valentino was apparently gay or bisexual. And his two lesbian wives. But without any question, he had sex with men. From choice. So he was one or the other.
~Cesar Romero

Being gay is natural. Hating gay is a lifestyle choice.
~John Fugelsang

Choose your love, Love your choice.
~Thomas S Monson

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
~John Dryden

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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
~Noam Chomsky

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Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.
~Dan Millman

Every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything you reject everything else— just as when you marry one woman you give up all the others.
~G K Chesterton

Now we have two choices in life: have sex with the same person forever or risk a terminal disease. Either way, your life is over.
~Andy Kindler

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
~Al Goldstein (either a pornographer, or CEO)

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I find the selectivity of erotic love ‒ the choice of this man or this woman ‒ much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.
~Mortimer Adler

Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It’s harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.
~Pink

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
~Barbara De Angelis

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Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.
~Bob Newhart

Surely, marriage is throwing anchor and saying, ‘This is where I’m staying. I’ve made my choice, and this is all I want because I’ve been on the up and down escalator, through the revolving door, and I want to stand still.’
~Pete Burns

True love ‒ that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy ‒ is a choice. It’s a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances.
~Mark Manson

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make not just on your wedding day, but over and over again ‒ and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
~Barbara De Angelis

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There’s just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also.
~Mike Ditka

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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.
~Sharron Angle

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Let’s suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
~Albert Ellis

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I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it’s fun to have an adventure. It’s like eating junk food… it’s fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice.
~Dita Von Teese

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I like all types of women. I accept them as they are when they come into my life… But I’m not a romantic. I’m just up-front. I like to be a part of something real, not make-believe. I tell women to tell me the truth, to just lay it out. Let me be the judge and decide if I want you around or not. Let me have my choice.
~Future

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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

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I love being a wife and homemaker ‒ because it’s my choice. My husband doesn’t expect me to do it. I don’t mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.
~Salma Hayek

And all the charms of face or voice
Which I in others see,
Are but the recollected choice
Of what I feel for thee.
~John Clare

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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

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It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.
~M Russell Ballard

Should kids check phones at dinner? I don’t know. To me, that’s a parenting choice.
~Sundar Pichai

I didn’t tell my kids, ‘You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.’ They chose these things on their own, and I don’t think we have to give kids every choice, but we do have to give them some choice because that autonomy is crucial for fostering passion.
~Angela Duckworth

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It’s immoral to parent irresponsibly… And it doesn’t help matters any when prime time tv, like “Murphy Brown“, a character who is supposed to represent a successful career woman of today, mocks the importance of the father by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another “lifestyle choice.” Marriage is probably the best anti-poverty program there is…
~Dan Quayle

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible ‘lifestyles’ turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind
~George Will

Given the choice, children who don’t want for anything will not save… We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.
~Barbara Coloroso

The absence of doll babies in my toy chest didn’t seriously influence my later decision not to become a mother; rather, I disdained Hasbro’s Baby Alive wetting doll because I was already the kind of girl who would grow up to be childless by choice.
~Lionel Shriver (journalist)

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.
~Anthony Hopkins

I’ve been writing the same book my whole life ‒ that you’re in one family, and all of a sudden, you’re in another family, and it’s not your choice, and you can’t get out.
~Ann Patchett

It wasn’t through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.
~Denise Van Outen

My mother made a choice. And when I was younger, I judged her for making that choice. Then I got older and got to be an adult, and I realized that was the ultimate sacrifice that any parent and any mother could possibly make.
~Jose Antonio Vargas

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.
~Tom Brady

Our family makes us who we are, defines us totally. When you go to a therapist or have analysis, whatever reason you go in for, they will always bring you back to your family. We’re strong or weak according to what family we have. You might have left them long ago, might not even talk to them, but something lingers; we have no choice.
~Sandrine Bonnaire

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Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
~Jacques Delille

On the choice of friends,
Our good or evil name depends.
~John Gay

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects.
~Oscar Wilde

Be careful about the environment you choose for it shapes you; be careful about the friends you choose for you will become like them.
~W Clement Stone

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
~Ben Jonson

I’m surrounded by nothing but great people. I’ve been blessed with that, so really, I’ve got no choice but to be an all-around good person.
~Tim Duncan

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Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.
~Sheryl Sandberg

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we’ve always had: work, or prison.
~Tim Allen

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I always feel that there are two choices for women. Either be totally confident about your non-size-zero body and say, ‘I love what I look like and this is who I am,’ or be the person who is obsessed with diet and exercise and keeping toned. What feels more realistic to me is that some days I wake up and think I love how I look. On other days I say, ‘If I had real self-control, I would be 10 pounds lighter.’ That contradiction is, to me, what being a girl actually feels like.
~Lena Dunham

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I’m not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.
~Drew Barrymore

You can be a thousand different women. It’s your choice which one you want to be. It’s about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, ‘This is my kingdom.’
~Salma Hayek

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
~Amy Tan

Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.
~Jessica Chastain

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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

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
~Brigham Young

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I’m not saying a housewife is in any way inferior to a workingwoman. No, she isn’t. But as an activist, as a woman, I would say the choice of being a housewife or pursuing a career should be left entirely to the woman and that choice should be respected.
~Shabana Azmi

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
~Camille Paglia

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.
~Ninon de L’Enclos (French author, courtesan, intellectual, 1620-1705)

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I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.
~Woody Allen

Being funny wasn’t a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.
~Tracy Morgan

I’ve never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don’t really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.
~Maya Rudolph

In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.
~Mariska Hargitay

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Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.
~Gregory David Roberts

Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people ‘the cops.’ But you know, sometimes, you’ve just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school!
~Dave Attell

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
~Dave Barry

May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.
~Kinky Friedman

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I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn’t. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?
~Debra Winger

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If a man has wealth, he has to make a choice, because there is the money heaping up. He can keep it together in a bunch, and then leave it for others to administer after he is dead. Or he can get it into action and have fun, while he is still alive. I prefer getting it into action and adapting it to human needs, and making the plan work.
~George Eastman

Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
~Manoj Bhargava

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The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we’re likely to eventually find ourselves in a situation in which we’re forced to make difficult choices about our parents, other loved ones, or even ourselves that ultimately boil down to calculations of worth and value.
~Sheena Iyengar

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Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
~David Elkind

I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
~Billie Joe Armstrong

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This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?
~Leelee Sobieski

I was 37 when my father died‒and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
~J Paul Getty

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
~Maya Angelou

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I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, ‘Only children can be abandoned. Adults can’t be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don’t have a choice.’
~Demi Moore

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.
~Audrey Hepburn

People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. ‘Choice.’
~Laura Schlessinger

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I don’t really have a choice. I’m getting older.
~Annette Bening

The need to make wise choices encompasses every area of our lives. Since we have time for only a limited amount of stuff, we need to choose wisely what stuff we’re going to allow to take up that time.
~Elaine St James

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don’t believe you get wiser because you get older. It’s a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.
~Boy George

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Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both?
~Neri Oxman

Even children learn in growing up that ‘both’ is not an admissible answer to a choice of ‘Which one?’
~Paul A Samuelson

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
~Harry Mathews

Full maturity is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.
~Angela Baron McBride

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Was there ever in anyone’s life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
~Joan Didion

It only takes one mistake,’ the Dan Banyan guy says, ‘and nothing else you ever do will matter.’ With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, ‘No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you’ll always be known for that one poor choice.’ He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, ‘Do that one wrong thing‒ and you’ll be dead for the rest of your life.
~Chuck Palahniuk

One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.
~Alastair Campbell

One of my favorite movies of all time is ‘It’s A Wonderful Life,’ which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it’s about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.
~Frank Darabont

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we’ll get somewhere.
~Peter Lynch

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Sometimes the wrong choice is the only one that lets you face the end with dignity, grace, and the awareness that you’re doing the right thing.
~Mira Grant

I’m for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It’s her choice… All the big powers they’ve silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
~Jack Kevorkian (euthanasia)

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
~Chuck Palahniuk

No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.
~Maggie Gallagher

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Honorable Mentions: Choice Implied

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
~Carlos Castaneda

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
~Robert Frost

There’s still time to change the road you’re on…
~Robert Plant

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
~Rita Mae Brown

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past… any and every part of your life in an instant.
~Tony Robbins

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There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision.
~Herbert V Prochnow

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
~Theodore Roosevelt

We are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up your mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
~Omar Nelson Bradley

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Every human has four endowments ‒ self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.
~Stephen Covey

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
~Abraham Lincoln

A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.
~Tony Robbins

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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
~Ayn Rand

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Choice of attention ‒ to pay attention to this and ignore that ‒ is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
~W H Auden

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Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life
~Eric Allenbaugh

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The statement “I have no choice” is a lie. You can choose. You simply do not prefer the alternatives available to you, for whatever reason.
~Neale Donald Walsch

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If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.
~Rita Dove

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Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.
~Joseph Barbera

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If you wish to achieve any success in this life, do your best to surround yourself with an orgy of good choices.
~Chris Hardwick

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The road, more than simply a system of regulations and designs, is a place where many millions of us, with only loose parameters for how to behave, are thrown together daily in a kind of massive petri dish in which all kinds of uncharted, little-understood dynamics are at work. There is no other place where so many people from different walks of life‒different ages, races, classes, religions, genders, political preferences, lifestyle choices, levels of psychological stability‒mingle so freely.
~Tom Vanderbilt

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With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in ‒ and once you’ve chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.
~Jeff Bridges

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Incontinence is not a vice for it is contrary to choice while vice flows from choice.
~Aristotle

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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
~Samuel Johnson

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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
~William Jennings Bryan

It’s choice‒not chance‒that determines your destiny.
~Jean Nidetch

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfill our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
~Paulo Coelho

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But you’ve got to make choices, and you’re not going to be right all the time.
~Earl Butz

The choices that we make aren’t always perfect but it’s ok… It’s part of the journey.
~Hayley Williams

Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don’t always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful‒sometimes they cause irrevocable harm‒but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of others. We must rise above such things.
~Brandon Mull

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People will hurt you. But don’t use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.
~LeCrae

I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace ‒ or not.
~Dana Perino

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.
~Angelina Jolie

Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don’t have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity.
~Henepola Gunaratana

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
~William Glasser

Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you’re about to make a choice that will define everything else you ever do, and that if you choose wrong, there may not be that many things left to choose… I’m not sure we can recognize those moments until they’ve passed us.
~Mira Grant

Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, including this very moment… It is all a journey,
~Miss Jewell.

I have come to understand that that is what life is all about‒a journey and the courage and energy always to take the next step and the next without judgement about what was right and what was wrong.
~Mary Balogh

One choice can transform you.
One choice can destroy you.
Once choice will define you.
~Veronica Roth

No matter what choice you make, it doesn’t define you. Not forever. People can make bad choices and change their minds and hearts and do good things later; just as people can make good choices and then turn around and walk a bad path. No choice we make lasts our whole life.
~Jonathan Maberry

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In every work out there comes a moment where you have to decide to keep pushing hard ‒ through the doubt, discomfort and fear of the pain. You have two choices at this point ‒ to push through and to mentally divorce your mind of the doubt, discomfort and fear or you can surrender.
~Lisa Rainsberger

Fear has never helped anybody make good choices. It leads to clinging when we should be walking.
~Harriet Lerner

Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who’s doing the talking, then decide what you’ll do.
~Bob Goff

You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world….you will only ever have two choices: love or fear. Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.
~Jim Carrey

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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms ‒ to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
~Viktor E Frankl

I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it’s only a choice of attitude.
~Judith M Knowlton

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You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.
~Paulo Coelho

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.
~Chris Pine

Every morning when I get up, the first thing I decide is: What do I want? Misery? Blisfullness? What am I going to choose today? And it happens that I always choose blissfulness. It is my choice, it is my life.
~Abdullah

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.
~John C Maxwell

Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.
~Osho

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.
~Rob Bell

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The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
~Charles R Swindoll

Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.
~Lysa TerKeurst

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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
~Oscar Wilde

A positive attitude is a choice, like walking to the other side of a street to avoid trouble or making a 180-degree turn when you feel you’re heading in the wrong direction.
~Richard M DeVos

Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.
~Nathan Pyles

I am an optimist…I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.
~Tom Hiddleston

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You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
~W Clement Stone

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
~Roy T Bennett

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@Writers Platform

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.
~Christopher Hitchens

Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time.
~Jason Reynolds

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?
~Toni Morrison

Perhaps, The Moon and the Yew Tree
~Ed Note

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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn’t do my homework so I could write.
~Laura Hillenbrand

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
~Edward Gibbon

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I write the story as it comes to me ‒ YA is my natural voice, not a conscious choice.
~Marie Lu

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.
~Paula Danziger

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.
~Clifton Fadiman

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Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
~Pindar

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Much of the time I’m an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer’s sensibility.
~Robyn Davidson

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your own presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
~Alice Koller

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.
~Sylvia Plath

The moment of choice has come—to go forward or to go withdraw into solitude. The decision must be in complete accord with one’s innermost being.
~Yi Jing

Hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.
~Fred Rogers

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It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.
~Alva Noto

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

We have free will, but our free will lies in our choice of thoughts.
~Emmet Fox

When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
~Gary Zukav

Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.
~David Simon

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The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.
~Jane Jacobs

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.
~Sandra Bullock

If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York.
~Roman Abramovich

For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We were like, ‘We’re east-coast. We’re New Yorkers. This is just a place that we have to come to, but not by choice.’
~Kevin Bacon

The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.
~Sarah Jessica Parker

Each person makes their own choice, but my spirit is meant to stay in Iran, especially with the work that I do, and with the emotional connection I have with the country ‒ with all its difficulties, this is why I stay.
~Asghar Farhadi

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Prewritten Prompt: choice

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People who are free to choose may choose wrongly. This is the age-old paradox. Sin is the other side of freedom’s coin. A world without sin would be a world without choice.
~Charles Handy

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
~Rumi

It requires courage to make good choices, even when others around us choose differently. As we make righteous choices day by day in little things, the Lord will strengthen us and help us choose the right during more difficult times.
~W Craig Zwick

‘Right’ choices can be for the wrong reasons; one can ignore a potent higher reality.
~Alfred Henry

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It’s fun being in Islamic countries, to know there’s only one religion. There’s order. You wear a burqa. There’s no choice. People are happy with that.
~Prince

For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced ‒ in his smallness of mind ‒ that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone ‒ against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts ‒ that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.
~Meir Kahane

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
~Henry Ward Beecher

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You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.
~Dr Michael Beckwith

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
~Alfred A Montapert

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In a way, forgiving is only for the brave. It is for those people who are willing to confront their pain, accept themselves as permanently changed, and make difficult choices. Forgivers are not content to be stuck in a quagmire. They reject the possibility that the rest of their lives will be determined by the unjust and injurious acts of another person.
~Gordon Dalbey

You’ve got to be willing to forgive and say, ‘God, get something good out of something bad.’ And if you’ll make that choice… God will do it.
~Don Young

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
~William Inge

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The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: ‘grace.’
~Max Lucado

The Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion.
~Richard G Scott

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace…
~Billy Graham

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.
~Pope Benedict XVI

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
~Aldous Huxley

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Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our ‘accepting’ and ‘willing’ are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.
~Aiden Wilson Tozer

Freedom is a choice. The grace of God abounds, and man is nonetheless free.
~Michael J Knowles

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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he’s responsible for every choice we make.
~Orson Scott Card

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
~Naguib Mahfouz

If God created our will, then he is willing for every choice we make, permitting a more compassionate reading of Eden.
~author unknown

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When you have a sense of calling, whether it’s to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn’t just a casual choice, it’s a divine calling.
~Charles R Swindoll

Choice is a divine teacher, for when we choose we learn that nothing is ever put in our path without a reason.
~Iyanla Vanzant

It is no use to grumble and complain;
It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather and sends rain ‒
Why, rain’s my choice.
~James Whitcomb Riley

God always gives his very best to those who leave the choice with him.
~James Hudson Taylor

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At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.
~James Gleick

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.
~Alonzo Church (math/logic/tec)

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My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.
~Tu Youyou

I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds of fields; law, medicine, history, and they eventually dispersed all over the world to do their fieldwork. I liked the way these people committed to the long term in a sincere, visionary way. Their projects weren’t about “next season.” They were ten-year commitments. They were lifestyle choices that had traditions of fieldwork built into them ‒ moving around, living on location, discipline, a real rigor for research.
~Aleksandra Mir

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.
~Evelyn Glennie (Scottish percussionist)

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What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.
~Henry A Wallace

AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.
~Oren Etzioni

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Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.
~Susan Orlean

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.
~Alvin Toffler

The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

Making a wrong choice early may limit making the right choice later.
~James E Faust

Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
~Darby Bannard

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Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology ‒ there is no choice.
~Uday Kotak

If I could come back as anything ‒ I’d be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
~Nikki Giovanni

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I feel angry that I have been born into a society where, by no choice of my own, by no agreement, by no actual decision, I am inherently complicit in the destruction of the world. It is hard to do the right thing. You have to be militant. You have to be an activist. You have to be branded as green to do the right thing.
~Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning of the Bible so urgent: ‘I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live.’
~Erich Fromm

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
~Wangari Maathai

We have no choice: we must protect Arctic ice, enable it to continue to act as an essential temperature regulator for the planet, avoid the catastrophic rise in sea levels that would result from the ice melt, and stop the disappearance of permafrost releasing irreversible quantities of greenhouse gases back into the atmosphere.
~Albert II, Prince of Monaco

People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow ‘passengers.’
~Daisaku Ikeda

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
~Pope John Paul II

Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.
~Stewart Udall

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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
~Al Yankovic

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

In school, all my teachers and my mum were super routing for me to study at Oxford. I picked music as a career choice, and this didn’t sit too well with them!
~Stormzy

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The
willingness to learn is a choice.
~Brian Herbert

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In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children’s classrooms and in their future.
~Bob Riley

Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon–destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroy us. A nation that doesn’t read much doesn’t know much. And a nation that doesn’t know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box and the voting booth… The challenge, therefore, is to convince future generations of children that carrying a book is more rewarding than carrying guns.
~Jim Trelease

Always make the choice to learn. What Princeton taught me was whatever mess you are studying, pull a thread with great persistence ’til you have clarity of thought. Princeton taught me how to solve a problem. How to think ‒ that’s what we pull out of this place.
~Maria Ressa

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When I was mayor of New York, my views changed. I began as mayor of New York City thinking that I could reform the New York City school system. After two or three years, four years, I became an advocate of choice, of scholarships, and vouchers, and parental choice, because I thought that was the only way to really change the school system.
~Rudy Giuliani

Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.
~Matt Salmon

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Know to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.
~Baltasar Gracian y Morales

Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.
~Maria Montessori

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§ The Exercise:

pending review

screenwriter’s blood
ink for text
motion as action
stuntman sweats
unvarnished truth
director’s cut
people’s voice
not academy’s choice
no!
say ‘t ain’t so!
feel-good outdated
happy overrated
honor is hexed
fine, we try horror next

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in praise of Liberty, a ditty

my kingdom my kingdom
built on greed, motive mum
Liberty out, down-voting thumbs

Liberty of Ellis once safely ensconced
booted to curbs, roundly denounced
needed seeds for the future the target announced

changed direction, issued directives, bury files of abuse
one reigns deigning to rein in contradictory news
may rain on Her parade but not change history’s views

Liberty Liberty: cracked bell, carved statue
reduced to submission, diminished in stature
let Her ring out defiance, endure as rendered in statute

court jester court jester,
lest unspoken things fester
say you detest it lest you disgust Her

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Pity The Opinion, a ditty

Politics, for puerile advantage and power plays
business arm-twisting the old-fashioned way
Diplomacy, the fine art of trading unfeeling arms
for less waste and whole lives minus the harm

More opinions mean more options
ambition’s conniptions trimmed of corruption
Proverbial equivalence, plowshares into swords
Politician and Diplomat, two different words

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numbers

real and imaginary
positive and negative
age, multiplication tables
PINs and phones
enabled drones, real clones

ones and zeroes for yes and no
binary choice, best of two
not the one got zeroed out
undecipherable her zodiac charts
unpredictable, the art of hearts

whole integer gathering decimals
designation: personality
denomination: human being
determination: @time of death
destination: don’t hold your breath

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5s ‘n 7s

harsh new fear in the forest
deplore what, not the clearest
new bid’ness owners in town
prepared to burn it all down
champion chimp, chump and scamp
resident tramp in the house
choice of voice, grouse or a mouse

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confusion turned convulsion
turned chaos, deadly riots
town marshal going martial
rule of law turning partial
golden rule judged as hurtful
measures pleasuring cæsar
bold seizures, playbook: control

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take me to some vasty space
vacant between-the-ears place
somewhere one can meditate
void the race, escape debate
treasured choice where peace awaits

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passing thought for leading track
chaste melody, what it lacks
choice harmony, paint it black
that brooding mood, them’s the blues
punch it up, the money hack

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posit: truce from war
a time to breathe, a reprieve
barter: chance for choice
brand new brand: diaspora
mount for a temple attack

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lack-love handicap
cringe-worthy cripple
moist social outcast
ought to be horse-whipped
neglected to vote
there in my mirror
offender of note

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whether stay or go
is it yes, or no
are we us, or what
pick up the pieces
my choice lives with that

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some pictures of you
posing for pictures
choice: see or be seen
scoping for next shot
eyes bright, missed the plot

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underworld thug
blessed the lawless, hugs ‘n shrugs
makes for good story
mugshot revelatory
added spice to past glory

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bombast’s feral try
tried villain, not at all shy
good choice for bad guy

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now, at this moment
given a choice to live on
cashews and swiss cheese

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Dear Reader,
This edition’s Exercise was taken up with politics in a way that is unseemly for a mild curator of quotes. As a dedicated member of the audience who must surrender up fickle choice for a wider understanding, this Disclaimer:

None of the above exercises were intended to reflect or depict any person living, past or present. Wordplay offered itself up in too many delicious ways to resist. No aspersions were intended, and future efforts at restraint will be more stringently applied.

The claim of this Disclaimer is validated by the distinction that exists between the vapid wanderings of a poetaster, and the encompassing wonders of a poet. No harm, no foul.
~Ed Note

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
~Randall Terry

The choices we make in the heat of emotion would be better if left for some other day.
~Dr Shad Helmstetter

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Some people are cowards… I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they’ve got to make that choice.
~Tom Hanks

We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.
~Isaac Bashevis Singer

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We imagine things ‒ that we wouldn’t be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.
~Joan Didion

That’s what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.
~Jack Antonoff

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Heroism is a matter of choice.
~Richard Cohen

Choices are the hinges of destiny.
~Pythagoras

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Whenever you’re faced with an explanation of what’s going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.
~Charles Krauthammer

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
~John Morley

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Once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.
~H G Wells

Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn’t go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That’s why I’m who I am today, because I didn’t leave. And I think I made the right choice.
~Stevie Nicks

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Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you.
~Caroline Myss

This is a good plan for life in general. If you have two choices, choose the harder.
~Paul Graham

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You have two choices: You can come down from the mountain and spend the rest of your days thinking it was so beautiful there, or you can create a vision, look upward, see the next mountain, and start the climb all over again.
~Oprah Winfrey

There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose ‒ if you embrace it you become one with it and you’ll be lived.
~Rasheed Ogunlaru

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We have no choice, we must all die. How we live, however, is entirely of our choosing.
~Simon Sinek

Use wisely your power of choice.
~Og Mandino

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Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
~Jules Renard

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
~Archibald MacLeish

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You are your choices.
~Seneca

The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not. You have to move on.
~Stephen Sondheim

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Choices determine character.
~Brandon Mull

It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities.
~J K Rowling

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Your choices today determine your tomorrow and you make your life through the power of choice.
~Kathy Smith

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.
~Brian Tracy

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Once you make a choice, you have no choice.
~Anna Chin-Williams

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
~Leon Blum

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Boredom is a choice. Like tardiness. Or interrupting.
~Mike Rowe

To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
~David A Bednar

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I’d rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I’m not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.
~Alicia Keys

I don’t have regret about things I’ve done that are successful or not successful or what people perceive or don’t know or whatever. I just know for me it had to be the right choice at the time. Sometimes that choice is just about getting a job.
~Mark Harmon

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Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.
~Eric Clapton

If it’s a choice between doing a film and not doing a film, I’d rather not. But then, you remember that you’re supposed to be earning a living and that it’s your career.
~Hugh Grant

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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it’s a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don’t find it to have anything to do with strength.
~Matthew Perry (@ge 54)

Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.
~Leonardo DiCaprio

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A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
~Neale Donald Walsch

An exercise: exchange places for the words “action” and “creation” in the above quote to see if it adds another layer of meaning for you
~Ed Note

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity’s traditional sources of meaning ‒ work, community, family, and identity ‒ or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny. The choice is ours.
~Klaus Schwab

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.
~John Irving

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Man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
~St Thomas Aquinas

If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I’d choose the nappy.
~Tim Burton

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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
~Arthur Miller

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
~Arnold J Toynbee

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The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.
~Rick Riordan

The obvious choice isn’t always the best choice, but sometimes, by golly, it is. I don’t stop looking as soon I find an obvious answer, but if I go on looking, and the obvious-seeming answer still seems obvious, I don’t feel guilty about keeping it.
~Eliezer Yudkowsky

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We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.
~Ernest Holmes

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.
~Tavis Smiley

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Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.
~Wayne Dyer

Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?
~Albert Camus

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The Olio’s Quote Harvest
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