"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."
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"Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do."
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"In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones."
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"Walking the walk doesn't begin with a step. It begins with a choice. You can turn fear into action and let doubt become confidence. Find your pride and let it fuel your courage. Turn tomorrow into today and turn today into RIGHT NOW!"
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"I put out a good 10 different types of drinks for them and they just said, "Oh, okay, so it's just one choice." One choice? I gave you Coke, Pepsi, Ginger Ale, Sprite. They saw that as one choice. Now why was that one choice? Because they felt, well, it was just all soda."
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"I pick what are my priorities and I limit those priorities to less than five in my life and really in those particular areas put in the energy to try to make good choices."
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"I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice."
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"Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending."
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"Your talent is in your choice."
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"If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing."
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"It's our choices, more than anything, that show who we really are."
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"For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything."
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"Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility"
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"Your future is being determined by you right now, depending on the choices you make."
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"If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal."
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"It is impossible to underestimate the significance of your today's choices"
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"They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be couriers. Therefore there are only couriers who hurry about the world, shouting to each other - since there are no kings - messages that have become meaningless. They would like to put an end to this miserable life of theirs but they dare not because of their oaths of service."
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"Pause and remember-- Every moment is a choice. Every thought, word and deed is creating your future. Choose wisely and positively!"
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"So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are ready and willing to do the right thing, just as Jack was. Their distractions are greater, though. There's no more simple life with simple choices for the young."
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"Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway."
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