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But I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man's place and, ignorant of the incident, they would behave likewise. Why should I unnecessarily court another kick? I therefore selected a different walk.

Mahatma Gandhi

Men, Ignorant, Different

Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.145, Jaico Publishing House

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It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.

John L. Phillips

Years, Long, Facts

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Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

Gustav Mahler

Play, Numbers, Orchestra

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The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.

Christian Louboutin

Passion, Memorable, Color

"Sole Mate" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

Alec Baldwin

Party, Judging, Lines

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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

Dennis Banks

Running, Honor, Bags

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But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.

Stephen Breyer

Independent, Persons

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We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

Stephen Breyer

San Francisco, California, Judging

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You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents.

Dick Cheney

People, President

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My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.

David Copperfield

Relief, Comic, Tricks

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In my everyday life, I just wear jeans, t-shirts and trainers - if I can go barefoot, that's even better. But for the events I have a stylist, and in two hours we have selected a whole outfit.

Penelope Cruz

Jeans, Two, Everyday

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Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.

Theodore Dalrymple

Mistake, Past, Choices

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When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks'.

Brian Eno

Government, Talking, Dubious

"Lessons in how to lie about Iraq" by Brian Eno, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2003.

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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.

Harold Ford, Jr.

Running, Country, Thinking

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Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

Jay Inslee

Apples, Pie, Tolerance

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The University of California has been selected as the poster child of animal abuse at laboratories. It's been shown that the tactics are more effective if you just hit one person over and over and get them to quit what they're doing.

Jerry Vlasak

Children, Animal, California

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Because of the booking I will miss the Holland game - if selected.

Paul Gascoigne

Football, Games, Missing

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Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Mistake, Humility, Responsibility

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Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

Andrew O'Hagan

Art, Mean

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The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

Claude Shannon

Communication, Fundamentals, Messages

Claude Elwood Shannon, Warren Weaver (1962). “The mathematical theory of communication”

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...in every religion the priest insists on five things -
First: There is a God.
Second: He has made known his will.
Third: He has selected me to explain this message.
Fourth: We will now take up a collection; and
Fifth: Those who fail to subscribe will certainly be damned.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Messages, Firsts, Failing

Robert Green Ingersoll (1920). “Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works”

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The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors ... are selected at the last moment from the multitude of citizens. They cannot be known beforehand, and they melt back into the multitiude after each trial.

John Henry Wigmore

Citizens, Trials, Lasts

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The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.

Paul Achleitner

Would Be, Body, American Universities

Source: www.spiegel.de

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Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we see the smallest masses selected for use in Nature, that even enormous ones are built up solely by fitting these together. Indeed, all Nature's efforts are devoted to uniting the smallest parts of our bodies in such a way that all things whatsoever, however diverse they may be, which coalesce in the structure of living things construct the parts by means of a sort of compendium.

Marcello Malpighi

Nature, Mean, Science

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But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."

Henry David Thoreau

Home, Civilization, Camping

Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.290

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