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• People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.

  Ani DiFranco

  Gun, Shoes, People

  "Song: "Fuel"". 1998.

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• Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.

  Plato

  Pain, Balance, Action

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws”, p.198, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world : that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war , which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands.

  George Orwell

  War, Hands, Two

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.

  Mordecai Richler

  Views, Choices, Belief

  Mordecai Richler (1955). “Son of a smaller hero: a novel”

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• In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?

  Leo Szilard

  Jobs, Fun, Ideas

  "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 79, September 01, 1961.

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• Being a working mother is not easy, but I think it helps you choose what's important in your life. If I think about starting a new project - whether it be music, a movie or a fragrance - I always stop and think: Is this something I feel really passionate about? That way, if I'm not at home at least it's for something I really love, and my son can look up to that.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mother, Home, Son

  "Sexy As Sin: Christina Aguilera Reveals Why She Finally Feels Sexy In Her Own Skin". Interview with Laura Schreffler, hauteliving.com. March 28, 2014.

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• The way to experience ultimate happiness is to let go of all worries and regrets, and to know that being happy is the most satisfying of life's feelings. Reflect back on all the progress in your life and allow the positive, creative and joyous thoughts to outshine and overwhelm any sorrow or grief that may linger in the recesses of your mind. Knowing that disease and disaster are natural parts of life is the key to overcoming adversity with a calm and happy spirit. Happiness is waiting there in front of you. Only you can decide whether or not you choose to experience it. Take this to heart.

  Toshitsugu Takamatsu

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I certainly have warm relationships with people, but you choose the people you have those relationships with. There are some people I don't bother with.

  Carl Reiner

  People, Bother, Warm

  "Carl Reiner on writing a children's book, tweeting, and joking around with Mel Brooks". Interview with Katherine Brodsky, tv.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.

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• I'm the next act
  Waiting in the wings
  
  I'm an animal
  Trapped in your hot car
  
  I am all of the days
  That you choose to ignore
  
  You are all I need
  You are all I need
  I'm in the middle of your picture
  Lying in the reeds.

  Thom Yorke

  Lying, Animal, Wings

  "All I Need". Song by Philip James Selway, Edward John O'brien, Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood, Thomas Edward Yorke, Colin Charles Greenwood, 2007.

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• You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness.

  Glenn Beck

  Hate, Love You, Dark

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• The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.

  Robyn

  Mean, Keeping Quiet, Safe

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• It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,--should you choose to go on with my chronicle,--simply in the conduct of my persons, during this disclosure to others.

  Anthony Trollope

  Looks, Purpose, Goes On

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Dr. Wortle's School: Trollope's Works”, p.17, 谷月社

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• There are certain things for which civilization has no answer. But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared to facethe consequences, whatever they are.

  Jimmy Sangster

  Civilization, Answers, Certain

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• When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that.

  Nick Saban

  Athlete, School, Goal

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• Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write.

  Larry Niven

  Writing, Ashamed, Embarrassed

  Larry Niven (1984). “Niven's Laws”, Owlswick Press

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• You must have some vision for your life. Even if you don't know the plan, you have to have a direction in which you choose to go... You want to be in the driver's seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Vision, Want, Plans

  "Oprah Winfrey's Words for Spelman Grads" by Aisha I. Jefferson, www.theroot.com. May 20, 2012.

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• Look to see what you are doing today. Is this how you choose to define yourself? Look to see what you are thinking today. Is this what you wish to create?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Thinking, Wish, Looks

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Communion with God”, p.76, Penguin

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• It's (baseball) on the radio and in the newspapers every day, the only game you can follow on that basis. From whatever arm's length you choose, it's always there.

  Tom Seaver

  Baseball, Games, Radio

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• If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

  Lisa Gardner

  Expectations, Velvet, Remember

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• This is the first generation to know that the choices we're making have ultimate consequences. It's a time when you either choose life or you choose death ... Going along with the current order means that you're choosing death.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Health, Mean, Order

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• What you choose to do professionally is a reflection of yourself and I take that seriously as an actor. But even as a filmmaker, I take it even more seriously.

  Logan Lerman

  Reflection, Actors, Filmmaker

  "Logan Lerman on ‘Indignation’, His Intense Preparation, and Why Directing Is His Ultimate Goal". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 28, 2016.

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• Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.

  Doc Childre

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Architect

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• Ever wonder how much patience you should have with someone, you know, before you lose your temper? Infinite. But careful now. That doesn't mean you have to wait for them, stay with them, or hang around them. Lord no, it just means that for as long as you choose to keep them in your life, understanding them, not changing them, is everything.

  Mike Dooley

  Spiritual, Mean, Should Have

  Mike Dooley (2012). “Even More Notes From the Universe: Dancing Life's Dance”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the States, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? "He got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Army, Cities, Government

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.438, Harvard University Press

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• Every deed has a seed. In other words, the deeds you choose to do in this lifetime create a seed for future generations.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Generations, Deeds, Lifetime

  Jentezen Franklin (2011). “Fasting Journal: Your Personal 21-Day Guide to a Successful Fast”, p.66, Charisma Media

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