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• That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the end, not some stamp of salvation or damnation that disperses all the complexity into some unsatisfying little decision - the balancing of scales.

  Tony Kushner

  Shapes, Littles, Matter

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.39, Theatre Communications Group

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• Every decision that affects our lives will be made by the person who has the power to make that decision, not the 'right' person or the 'smartest' person or the 'best' person. Make peace with this fact.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Facts, Made, Making Peace

  "What I Learned About Influence From Peter Drucker" by Marshall Goldsmith, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2014.

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• We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it’s good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary. When we gloss over these truths we unintentionally promote the very stigma we’re trying to combat.

  Katha Pollitt

  Sex, Moving, Motherhood

  "How to Really Defend Planned Parenthood". www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2015.

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• Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man - he made a good decision.

  Donald Trump

  Husband, Men, Insulted Him

  Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump, twitter.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. To love somebody isn`t just a strong feeling. It is a decision, a judgment, and a promise.

  Paulo Coelho

  Strong, Commitment, Unconditional Love

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• Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.

  Susan Cain

  Keys, Solitude, Able

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• The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, or do we fight for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health care for all?

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Fighting, Years

  FaceBook post by Bernie Sanders from Oct 31, 2015

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• I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please do not sit up there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is I don't.

  Jack Bauer

  Regret, People, Pay

  "24/ Day 7: 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Children, Hate, Ignorance

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• Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

  Peter Drucker

  Mean, Important, Done

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.95, Routledge

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• Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions.

  Donald Trump

  Entrepreneur, Bankers, Sound

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• Maybe yes, but probably not. At each stage I made what was then the best choice. Having taken that decision, I changed direction and there was no turning back.

  Mr. Lee

  Taken, Choices, Made

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• I think I'm better than Jake (Shields), I think I should be fighting for the title, but I've been given a huge opportunity here to fight B.J. Penn and that's a big fight, belt or no belt. We're in a sport of selling fights right now, and the sport's growing, we're trying to get international, trying to get into every country, every household, and part of that is ticket sales is the idea that Jake Shields is coming over from Strikeforce with two belts. I understand that, it's a business decision.

  Jon Fitch

  Sports, Country, Fighting

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• While the past is the past, it often affects our decisions later on in life.

  Ka

  Past

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• Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

  Mark Millar

  Skills, Decision Making, Traits

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• When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me its a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

  Laurence D. Fink

  Yield, Looks, Return

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• If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.

  Courtney Barnett

  Stress, Insignificant Things, Worry

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

  Lisa Jakub

  Growing Up, Hollywood, Film

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• When we look at films, we usually see only the action. Yet it is the decision to act that helps us understand how the character's mind works.

  Linda Seger

  Character, Mind, Looks

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• It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.

  Roelof Botha

  Wall, Rushing, Long

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• When I get hurt in the market, I get the hell out. It doesn't matter at all where the market is trading. I just get out, because I believe that once you're hurt in the market, your decisions are going to be far less objective than they are when you're doing well If you stick around when the market is severely against you, sooner or later they are going to carry you out.

  Randy McKay

  Hurt, Believe, Matter

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• FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.

  Bill Dedman

  Loss, Doe, Flood

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• Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

  Ann Leckie

  Feelings, Emotion, Easier

  "Ancillary Justice". Book by Ann Leckie, Orbit Books, Chapter 6 (p. 88), October 1, 2013.

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• Every decision you've made will impact how things go. The player's also the
  architect of what happens.

  Casey Hudson

  Player, Impact, Architect

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• This is your court and you possess the force to celebrate the trial and convict me on the basis of your lists of accusations, the public one and the secret one, and you can dictate a sentence prepared by the political and security apparatuses that are behind this trial. But I too possess a will obtained from the justice of our cause and the determination of our people to reject any decision from this 'kangaroo court'.

  Ahmad Sa'adat

  Determination, People, Justice

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