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• I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.

  Jane Goodall

  Book, Writing, Animal

  "Dr Jane Goodall, primatologist". Interview with Lauren Barker, theweekendedition.com.au. June 5, 2014.

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• I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.

  Steve Jobs

  College, Ideas, Years

  Source: sites.google.com

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• I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fall, Writing, Boys

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• Take it slowly. The deepest resentments are wrapped up in a lot of hurt and pain. We think we're protecting ourselves by not forgiving. Acknowledge that and go easy on yourself. Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. Forgiveness is a powerful yet challenging tool that will support and honor you, even in the most extreme circumstances.

  Howard Martin

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Pain

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• In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.

  William James

  Strong, Leaving, Acquisition

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The first step to forgiveness is the desire to do it, no matter how you feel toward the person who hurt you. Then you make the decision to do it which means it's a firm decision that won't change when your feelings change. The next step is to depend on the Holy Spirit to help you do what you've decided to do.

  Joyce Meyer

  Hurt, Mean, Decision

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• My grandfather and my dad's brothers and my dad all worked in construction. It's the whole cultural thing, you know, your parents want you to go to the next level of whatever, and I decided that I ought to be an architect. I can't tell you why. And I tried, and I had no aptitude for it.

  Bruce Molsky

  Brother, Dad, Parent

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Men, Weak Man, Stubborn

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a writer almost as soon as I learned to read.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Stories, Landscape

  Interview with Benjamin Cohen, believermag.com. September 1, 2009.

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• It's enough for a small betrayal, a distancing, an affirmation of independence to provoke wrath, fear and also hatred from the adult. How many husbands and boyfriends kill the woman they say they love because she has decided to leave. It's in the news every day.

  Dacia Maraini

  Husband, Betrayal, Love Is

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

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• I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. The door is opened only so far. If some of us can squeeze through the crack of that door, then we owe it to those who have made those demands that the door be opened to use the knowledge or the skills that we acquire not only for ourselves but in the service of the community as well. This is something that I guess I decided a long time ago.

  Angela Davis

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Thinking

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I learned to never say never and never say no, so I decided to go pro. I knew I'd have an opportunity to be a defensive player in the NFL.

  Darius Philon

  Opportunity, Player, Nfl

  Source: www.chargers.com

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• Running with the bulls was one of my crazier judgments in life and one of those things I decided to do spur of the moment. It was pretty hilarious.

  Heather Mitts

  Running, Spurs, Bulls

  Source: soccerlens.com

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• Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.

  James C. Scott

  Careers, Agriculture, Population

  "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

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• But the way they phrase those things when you get to the voting booth, you don't know which way you're voting, cause it's like, "Should we not eat unbabies not on this not day?" .... So you vote no on it, and then it's on the news the next day. "Well, 74% of Americans have decided it's time to eat babies."

  Kyle Cease

  Funny, Baby, Next Day

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• I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Roots, Community

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.133, Canongate Books

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• Surprisingly one of the forces for secularisation was Christianity itself. As soon as it accepted the idea of a contrary opinion, the moment that European opinion decided for toleration, it decided for eventual free marketing opinion.

  Ibn Warraq

  Ideas, Marketing, Opinion

  Source: ibnwarraq.com

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• We are free, in the West, to choose; we have real choice to pursue our own desires; we are free to set the goals and contents of our own lives; the West is made up of individuals who are free to decide what meaning to give to their lives-in short the glory of the West is that life is an open book,[1] while under Islam, life is a closed book, everything has been decided for you: God and the Holy Law set limits on the possible agenda of your life.

  Ibn Warraq

  Real, Book, Law

  Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”

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• Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Mean, Home, Clothes

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• European carmakers pledged to reduce CO2 emissions by 25 percent from 1995 to 2008. We kept our word and reduced the value even more. This is not the result of short-term gimmickry. We decided years ago to develop the relevant models and engines, otherwise we wouldn't be able to offer them today.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Years, Our Words, Able

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• Don't believe Wikipedia, not everything written there is true. The Soviet Artists Union was not a communist party organization. It was a professional union, which did not protect you from the government if the government decided you were the enemy, but it did give you the possibility to work in your profession and survive.

  Ilya Kabakov

  Party, Believe, Artist

  "INTERVIEW: Monumenta 2014 Artists Ilya And Emilia Kabakov". Interview with Douglas MacKaye Harrington, www.hamptons.com.

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• Everyone was saved once by music. So I decided to REALLY work on my songs and not just "play" - to make something really good, more "professional." Something which makes you feel better; a song who says: "I know how much you're sad, and you're not alone, this is a song made for you." I really wanted to help with my music.

  Marilou

  Song, Feel Better, Play

  Source: sleepingbagstudios.ca

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• I decided to go to the cinema school because I thought it was a new sort of media. Nowadays, it's not anymore, but in the '50s, cinema had a half century of age. Today it's more than one century. I thought it was a new media, a new way of telling stories.

  Costa-Gavras

  School, Media, Age

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I landed in L.A. in early '89, William Morris decided to take me on to see if I could get any jobs. I was cast in a TV movie called Protected Surf, and made $30,000 in four weeks, and I decided I needed to take acting seriously, because I had never made that much money in a year, much less four weeks. That's when I decided I thought I could make a career out of it.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Jobs, Years, Careers

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. April 7, 2008.

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• The way I reacted to 9/11 was I decided I didn't want to do any movies that are sad or critical. I decided I didn't want to make my living depressing people or making them go home sick, so I just decided I wanted to do comedy for a while and study it for a while. It doesn't mean everybody should do that, but that was my reaction.

  Jack Nicholson

  Depressing, Home, Mean

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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