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• Passion... it lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting, and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir, open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us, guides us... passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have?

  Joss Whedon

  Lying, Sleep, Passion

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". www.imdb.com. 1997-2003.

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• We both followed our hearts and had no choice but to hurt each other deeply.

  Lena Dunham

  Love, Hurt, Heart

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.215, Random House

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• My choice is what I choose to do and if I'm causing no harm it shouldn't bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be and if you're causin' no harm, then your alright with me.

  Ben Harper

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Song: Ben Harper Burn One Down, 1995

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• In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

  C. S. Lewis

  Animal, Pet, Levels

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• The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of its members.

  Rushworth Kidder

  Organization, Climate, Ethics

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• A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The assumption is that one or the other choice is the right move. No. Almost everything we say or think or do - or write - comes in that spacious human area bounded by something this side of the sublime and something above the unforgivable.

  William Stafford

  Moving, Teaching, Writing

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• To be honest, I felt more myself with that haircut. I felt bold, and it felt empowering because it was my choice. It felt sexy too. Maybe it was the bare neck, but for some reason I felt super-, supersexy.

  Emma Watson

  Boyfriend, Sexy, Kissing

  "The Bloom Of The Wallflower". Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.wonderlandmagazine.com. February 5, 2014.

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• In view of the fourteen incidents of sabotage and infiltration perpetrated in the past month alone, Israel may have no other choice but to adopt suitable countermeasures against the focal points of sabotage. Israel will continue to take action to prevent any and all attempts to perpetrate sabotage within her territory. There will be no immunity for any state which aids or abets such acts.

  Levi Eshkol

  War, Past, Israel

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  Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

  Angelina Jolie

  Cancer, Challenges, Scare

  "Angelina Jolie's mastectomy account raises awareness of gene testing" by Ed Pilkington and Haroon Siddique, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2013.

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• In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Feminist, Intercourse, My Own

  "They took my body from me and used it" by Andrea Dworkin, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2000.

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• Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it while you're building astronomically expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later on.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Luxury, Issues

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• It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Journey, Design, Given

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• A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.

  David Brooks

  Wise, Writing, Soul

  David Brooks (2011). “The Paradise Suite: Bobos in Paradise and On Paradise Drive”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about an unfortunate bone structure and a healthy head of hair.

  Maureen Howard

  Writing, Hair, Healthy

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• The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who has in no way requested it and who has never consented to it. The height of arbitrariness and injustice is reached when certain people, such as physicians or legislators, arrogate to themselves the power to decide who ought to live and who ought to die.

  Pope John Paul II

  People, Abortion, Height

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view and act on death as a dignified moral and godly choice for those suffering with terminal illnesses.

  John Shelby Spong

  Godly, Views, Decision

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• I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Photography, Men, Would Be

  Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.314, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave.

  Kevin Keegan

  Soccer, Football, Player

  "Kevin Keegan resigns as Newcastle United manager" by Tom Lutz, www.theguardian.com. September 4 ,2008.

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• Robbie Keane's not the second choice, he's my first choice. But Jermain Defoe is as well.

  Martin Jol

  Football, Firsts, Wells

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• As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful. We have no choice then but to become its exploiters, and to lose, by consequence, our place in it. It is only when, by humility, openness, generosity, courage, we make ourselves able to relate to it on its terms that it ceases to be alien.

  Wendell Berry

  Humility, Long, Generosity

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• Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

  Loren Eiseley

  Believe, Childhood, Psychology

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.17, Library of America

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• If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests; the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election and those who are making it harder for you to vote; Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should make for themselves.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Gay, Differences

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• I don't know if the question is whether you believe in capital punishment anymore. I think the greater question is its effectiveness and given the choices we face in California, should we have a merit-based discussion on its effectiveness and costs?

  Tani Cantil-Sakauye

  Believe, Thinking, Punishment

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• In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.

  Bernice King

  Sides, Death Penalty, Loving God

  Bernice King (1999). “Hard Questions, Heart Answers”, p.45, Harmony

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• With the gift of the Holy Ghost comes the ability to develop a powerfully sensitive capacity to make the right choices. Cultivate that gift. As the Lord has said, that is accomplished by consistent, righteous living. As you enhance your capacity to sense the direction of that infallible influence, you will avoid disappointment, discouragement, and even tragedy.

  Richard G. Scott

  Disappointment, Righteous Living, Tragedy

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