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• These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Real, Men, Justice

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• The problem with our education system is not that parents do not have a choice. The problem is that inequities continue to exist.

  Patsy Mink

  Justice, Diversity, Parent

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• Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown colony in 1619, a year before the Mayflower landed. But that choice has never been left up to us.

  Clarence Page

  Years, Justice, Diversity

  Clarence Page (1997). “Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity”, Harper Perennial

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• To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Children, Fear

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• I don't think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sundays when there's a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice.

  Lina Wertmuller

  Suicide, Suicidal, Winter

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• All it takes is to pick up that one piece of trash you pass everyday on your way to work. Or to turn the water faucet off when you're brushing your teeth from afar. Or to compost. Or to buy 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper. Or to utilize vintage stores and secondhand markets. Or to fully devote yourself to only buying vegetables from local sources. It is remarkably easy to incorporate sustainable choices into our everyday, busy lives.

  Shailene Woodley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• Without fear I go now to God. Your future is what you will choose today.

  Malachi Ritscher

  Suicidal, Today, Your Future

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• Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.

  Charles Rosin

  Golf, Games, Golf Game

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• Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

  Brian Tracy

  Sports, Decide Upon, Focus

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• [Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

  Dean Kamen

  Technology, Years, Wife

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• To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.

  Cesare Pavese

  Suicide, Suffering, Defense

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.117, Transaction Publishers

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• I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, Pro Life, Abortion

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• Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you, take a deep breath and notice what you see, hear and feel. Present moment awareness is the point of power and choice. It frees us from our compulsive thoughts.

  Laura Harvey

  Letting Go, Past, Giving

  "Letting Go: How to Release the Past" by Laura Harvey, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2011.

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• Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

  Barbara Boxer

  Peace, War, Iraq

  “Iraq: Credibility, Responsibility, Accountability" by Senator Barbara Boxer, www.ign.com. July 6, 2005.

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• When I was asked to join this club and I saw the quality and ambitions of the manager it was an easy choice for me to make.

  Ricardo Carvalho

  Ambition, Quality, Clubs

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• Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Cutting, Goal

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• If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

  W. Clement Stone

  Time, Destiny, Thinking

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• Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

  Saint Augustine

  Death, Suicide, Children

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• Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even in hell, in spite of their certain knowledge and contemplation of the absolute truth; there are some fearful ones who have given themselves over to Satan and his proud spirit entirely. For such, hell is voluntary and ever consuming; they are tortured by their own choice. For they have cursed themselves, cursing God and life. And they will burn in the fire of their own wrath forever and yearn for death and annihilation. But they will not attain to death.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suicide, Believe, Suicidal

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• It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it. This theory believes that love is a magical force which frees us from all suffering and solves every problem, that it is an end unto itself. To a limited extent, there may be some truths to each of these beliefs, but having the capacity to love is not the same as having the ability to love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Running, Believe, Love You

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• I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they coincide... that is beauty. That is love.

  Peter McWilliams

  Loneliness, Love You, Two

  Peter McWilliams (1977). “Catch me with your smile”, Blue Mountain Press

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• Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.

  Cunningham Geikie

  Inspirational, Christian, Character

  John Cunningham Geikie (1891). “The Life and Words of Christ”

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• It's the time to make choices you can be proud of. It's the time to be the best version of yourself and in the process, somewhere along the way hopefully you attract the best version someone else has to offer. The more you challenge yourself, the higher your expectations become for your life and the people you want to have in it.

  Erin Foster

  Beautiful, Expectations, People

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• Luck is opportunity met by preparation - and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice.

  Neal Boortz

  Opportunity, Preparation, Luck

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• (After meeting her birth mother after more than 40 years) We exchange bunches of orchids, laughing at the coincidence of the flowers. A little unnerving: I wonder if that choice has anything to do with genetics. ... I want to take mine home and look after them so that they live for days. I might spray the leaves, and make sure they sit in an easterly window, and keep them out of the direct sun.

  Jackie Kay

  Mother, Flower, Home

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