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Miguel Angel Ruiz Author, Spiritual Teacher
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"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."

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"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."

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Tom Hanks Actor, Producer
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"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?"

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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
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"Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin."

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
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"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between."

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Lindsey Graham Politician
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"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."

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Meir Kahane Politician
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"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."

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Dante Alighieri Poet, Philosopher
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"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."

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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
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"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."

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