"Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice."
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"Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices."
"The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices."
"Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one.... Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument."
"Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices."
"It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it"
"We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?"
"Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin."
"You have a choice to make when you're not playing. Either you're invested and a great teammate, or your not"
"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between."
"Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils."
"The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better."
"Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear."
"I've realized that being happy is a choice."
"Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require."
"For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d."
"Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds."
"God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness."
"the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute"
"Leadership is a choice, not a position"