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• It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton. As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life.

  Demi Moore

  Mother, Moving, Heart

  "Demi Moore says she is divorcing Kutcher", www.cnn.com. November 18, 2011.

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• I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.

  Neil Young

  Song, Children, Color

  Song: After The Gold Rush, 1970

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• PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

  Michael Arad

  Determination, People, Hatred

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• And we will move forward to our work, not howling out regrets like slaves whipped to their burdens, but with gratitude for a task worthy of our strength, and thanksgiving to Almighty God that He has marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world.

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Gratitude, Regret, Moving

  Maiden speech in the Senate. "Congressional Record", Senate, 56th Congress, 1st session, pp. 704-712, en.wikisource.org. January 09, 1900.

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• It meant that Diana had not waited for any explanation, however halting and imperfect, but had condemned him unheard; and this showed a much harder, far less affectionate woman than the Diana he had known or had thought he knew - a mythical person, no doubt created by himself. It had of course been evident from her letter, which made no reference to his; but he had not chosen to see the evidence and now it was absolutely forced upon his sight it made his eyes sting and tingle again. And deprived of his myth he felt extraordinarily lonely.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Lonely, Eye, Sight

  Patrick O'Brian (2011). “The Reverse of the Medal (Vol. Book 11) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.168, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Agriculture, People, Calling

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• Every single person who's drifted in and out of your life is a part of your divinely chosen experience. So, give thanks for all of these people, and take serious note of what they brought you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.

  Coco Chanel

  Clothes, Numbers, Ease

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• Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Effort, Protect

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Infinite, Has Beens

  Sri Aurobindo (1990). “The Synthesis of Yoga”, p.53, Lotus Press

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• The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

  Ayn Rand

  Moral, Reason, Accepting

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.961, Penguin

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• People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.

  Jack Welch

  People, World, Rockets

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• I claim my heart's desire, and I choose my direction. I will attain my chosen goal.

  Alan Cohen

  Heart, Goal, Desire

  Alan Cohen (2010). “A Daily Dose of Sanity: A Five-Minute Soul Recharge for Every Day of the Year”, p.1, Hay House, Inc

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• The first step in understanding the sex industry is to understand the customers, the johns. ... These men have already violated moral standards - and they know it. Talking about right and wrong aren't compelling arguments for them. They are criminals who have chosen to break the law and hurt people, many of them young people.

  Joseph Parker

  Hurt, Sex, Men

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• You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.

  John Bunyan

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• It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is Reality. If I have chosen to be a filmmaker as well as a writer it is because, rather than expressing reality through those symbols that are words, I have preferred the cinema as a means of expression - to express reality through reality.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Hero, Mean, Reality

  Pier Paolo Pasolini, Laura Betti (1989). “Pier Paolo Pasolini: a future life”

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• When you look to the past, don't sit and dwell on your regrets. Instead, focus on the things you learned from each experience and how they may enrich your future. Use the past not as something to hold you back, but as a method for reaffirming the drive to move forward on your chosen path.

  Jack Davenport

  Regret, Moving, Past

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• If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.

  Seth Godin

  Needs, Demand, Way

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• If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.

  Napoleon Hill

  Leader, Soul, Trying

  Napoleon Hill (2011). “You Can Work Your Own Miracles”, p.90, Ballantine Books

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• The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.
  Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words.

  Eric Ripert

  Beautiful, Dream, Reading

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• The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called the Beloved from all eternity and held safe in an everlasting embrace... We must dare to opt consciously for our chosenness and not allow our emotions, feelings, or passions to seduce us into self-rejection.

  Henri Nouwen

  Children, Passion, Eye

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• I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Should Have, Special

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.277, Zondervan

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• We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.

  Peter Drucker

  Smart, Ambition, Opportunity

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.139, Harvard Business Review Press

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• One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

  Edith Stein

  Desire, Crosses

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• God is resplendently reflected in the souls of His chosen ones, and these pure souls, these images of God, like the transparent glass, shine forth like gold in the sun, like diamonds of the purest water, but they shine for God and the angels, not revealing their brightness to men, although at times, by God's ordering, they do shine even for them, by the light of their faith, their virtues, when necessary, similar to a candle put on a candlestick in a room, and lighting the room with all those who are in it. (cf. Mt. 5:15).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Angel, Men

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