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• Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.

  Andrzej Sapkowski

  Life, Evil, Done

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• I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Suicide, Real

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• Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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  I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Joy, Ransom, Way

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• I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Believe

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.73, Schocken

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• Stop waiting for others to change. Recognize that every person has the right to be whatever they choose-even if you irritate yourself about it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Change, Being Yourself, Acceptance

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• Dying to meet your girlfriends that you said you might bring. If they're the ones that tell you that you do the right thing.

  Drake

  Relationship, Girlfriend, Humble

  Song: The Real Her, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.

  Dalai Lama

  Sympathy, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• When God gets ready to shake America, He may not take the Ph.D. and the D.D. God may choose a country boy ... God may choose the man that no one knows, a little nobody, to shake America for Jesus Christ in this day, and I pray that He would!

  Billy Graham

  God, Christian, Country

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• When I don't make a decision, it's not that I don't think about it. I think about it and make a decision not to make a decision.

  P. V. Narasimha Rao

  Powerful, Thinking, Decision

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• Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Inspirational, Wise

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• The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Mistake, Errors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.391, Library of America

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• I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Political, Voting, Democracy

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• Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.250, Random House

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• Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.

  Steve Ditko

  Gun, Power, Neutrality

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• Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

  Paul Tournier

  Life, Family, Marriage

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• Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life.

  Eugen Sandow

  Life, Motivational, Moving On

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• Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose.

  C. T. Vivian

  Inspirational, Leadership, Struggle

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• I realized this weak that I just cannot do it all. So I will choose to do what i can, fabulously.

  Clinton Kelly

  Inspirational, New Year, Realizing

  FaceBook post by Clinton Kelly from Aug 26, 2013

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• Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog resp‎onding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Strength, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 21, 2012

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• Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

  Hans Jonas

  Life, Nature, Men

  Hans Jonas, Lawrence Vogel (1996). “Mortality and Morality: A Search for Good After Auschwitz”, p.157, Northwestern University Press

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• I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.

  Bill Richardson

  Inspirational, Courage, Differences

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• "No" is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you... Declining to hear "no" is a signal that someone is either seeking control or refusing to relinquish it.

  Gavin de Becker

  Abuse, Trying, Hearing

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?

  John Zerzan

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

  John Zerzan (2012). “Future Primitive Revisited”, p.96, Feral House

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