Choices Quotes - Page 30

• Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

  Ben Ames Williams

  Life, Change, Responsibility

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• The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.

  Henry Tizard

  Science, Men, Secret

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• Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound to the complete truth. There is always a danger lest the fascination of a new discovery should lead us too far. Men of science, being human, are apt, like lovers, to exaggerate the perfections and be a little blind to the faults of the object of their choice.

  Thomas George Bonney

  Truth, Struggle, Science

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• I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!

  Raymond Smullyan

  Free Will, Chosen, My Own

  Raymond M. Smullyan, Jason Rosenhouse (2014). “Four Lives: A Celebration of Raymond Smullyan”, p.305, Courier Corporation

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• This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.

  Charles Orville Whitley

  Engineering, Evil, Smoking

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• Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one.... Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Science, Views, Design

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• Heaven or Hell? You make it seem as if that's an easy choice to make. Sitting there in heaven watching others burn, and I can't do anything to help? That in itself would be hell for me. I'd be up there fighting god and his angels to let me out, so that I can come down and at least try to help. I am a moral person. Heaven is for uncaring Hypocrites.

  Deborah Pryce

  Fear, Hypocrite, Angel

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• What you are today is the choice you made yesterday.

  Tsem Tulku

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Yesterday

  FaceBook post by H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche from Feb 26, 2013

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• The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.

  Abraham Hayward

  Nice, Food, Class

  Abraham Hayward (1858). “Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections”, p.391

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• The right to life is not a woman's issue. The Lord is the giver of life and only He can make choices about life. It is always a reward to have life ... only the Lord gives and takes life.

  Margaret Heckler

  Issues, Giving, Abortion

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• Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

  Immanuel Kant

  Independence, Human Nature, Impulse

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• The God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government. And he has sent other choice spirits to preserve it.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Integrity, Patriotic, Government

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and say, "I am already diverse, and I intend to stay diverse." If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, "I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance." If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Integrity, Doors, Keys

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• For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Soul, Duty

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• Free will means that you have the choice to connect to spirit... or not.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Mean, Free Will

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “The Power of Intention”, p.14, Hay House, Inc

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• I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.

  Jonas Salk

  Spiritual, Evolution, Guides

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• Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.

  L. Tom Perry

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Omnipotence

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• Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will be our everlasting joy. But if we refuse His love and remain in the coldness of sin and opposition to Him and to other men then will His fire (by our own choice rather than His) become our everlasting enemy, and Love, instead of being our joy, will become our torment and our destruction.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Love Is, Men

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.124, New Directions Publishing

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• Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and selfrespect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave. Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Spiritual, Animal, Men

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• I had the choice to either grow up and find God in the situation or become bitter. I chose to find God. And I experienced freedom like I never knew before.

  Heather Mercer

  Spiritual, Growing Up, Godly

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• Man is born as a seed; he can become a flower, he may not. It all depends on you, what you do with yourself; it all depends on you whether you grow or you don´t. It is your choice- and each moment the choice has to be faced; each moment you are on the crossroads.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Flower, Men

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• The power granted the Attorney General to intervene in all equal-protection-of-the-law cases is extremely broad and dangerous. Choices made by the Attorney General could follow a political and selected pattern.

  John Sparkman

  Choices Made, Law, Political

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• The important thing to realize is that while we may not escape our own basic pattern, we can work in harmony with it. That is where free will comes in. Once having chosen, a man has to accept the consequences of his choice, and go on from there.

  Swami Yogananda

  Men, Important, Goes On

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• As each sun rises, it is your choice to wait for some special day to celebrate, or to celebrate that each day is special.

  Julia Rose

  Gratitude, Waiting, Special

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• As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made as to what the emotions are that are aroused by the character of music.

  Edgar Cayce

  Inspiration, Character, Choices Made

  "Individual reference file of extracts from the Edgar Cayce readings".

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