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• Make choices-not excuses.

  Charles J. Givens

  Adversity, Excuse

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• You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not free to alter the consequences of those choices. You will be what you think about what you consistently allow to occupy the stage of your mind.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Adversity, Thinking, Mind

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• What is all this juice and all this joy?
  A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning
  In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy,
  Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
  Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
  Most, O maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Girl, Sweet, Children

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1887, Delphi Classics

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• There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Passion, Ambition, Errors

  Alexander Hamilton (1904). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton”

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• When we experience our fear, when we say the words "I am scared," we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being 'scared' is not who we are. It is not our identity.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Believe, Identity, Who We Are

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• Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. If our friends are badly chosen they will inevitably drag us down; if well they will raise us up.

  Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury

  Wise, Real, Purity

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• Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he can choose otherwise. The choice is his responsibility, and his alone. There is no automatism that will carry him upward without choice or effort and there is no trend solely in the right direction. Evolution has no purpose; man must supply this for himself. The means to gaining right ends involve both organic evolution and human evolution, but human choice as to what are the right ends must be based on human evolution.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Mean, Responsibility, Science

  George Gaylord Simpson (1967). “The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man”, p.311, Yale University Press

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• It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric - without a practical or visual reality.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, Eye, Reality

  "Talk Asia" with Anna Coren, edition.cnn.com. June 22, 2012.

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• Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

  Felicity Jones

  Fashion, Decision, Trying

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• You become yourself, every single day of your life, through your choices and how you think.

  Jenna Marbles

  Being Yourself, Thinking

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• You can always care [about what others think]. You probably always will care. But don't let it dictate your choices and what you want and what you want to accomplish and who you want to be. Don't let anyone get in the way of that. That's being yourself.

  Jenna Marbles

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Care

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• We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons, not as a responsible or a rational person

  John Gerstner

  Free Will, Reason, Responsible

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• The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice

  Mark Horton

  Attitude, Mind, Tools

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• My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Adventure, Blood, Giving

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• I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable

  Alexander Shulgin

  Spiritual, Marijuana, Government

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• News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they're thinking... when they're laughing... and when they are making choices that have enormous impact.
  The unique potential - and duty - of a media company are to help its audiences connect to the issues that define our time.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Encouragement, Home, Unique

  Rupert Murdoch's Speech on Carbon Neutrality, www.theaustralian.com.au. May 10, 2007.

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• The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition".

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• The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance.

  Nabeshima Naoshige

  War, Samurai, Way

  "Hagakure" by Nabeshima Naoshige, translated by William Scott Wilson, 1979.

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• I intend to have protections for the L.G.B.T. community in there. I'm not going to make choices between that community and the non-L.G.B.T. community.

  Patrick Leahy

  Community, Immigration, Protection

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• We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in America. The right choice is to fight those terrorists where they are.

  Randy Neugebauer

  War, Fighting, America

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• Picture me inside the misery of poverty, no man alive has ever witnessed struggles ive survived, praying hard for better days promised to hold on me and my dogs aint have a choice but to hold on.

  Tupac Shakur

  Dog, Struggle, Thug

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• The throne we honour is the people's choice.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, People, Thrones

  'Pizarro' (1799) act 2, sc. 2

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• And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Love You, Said

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.128

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• We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Taken, Hippie

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