"Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions."
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"Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate."
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"I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul."
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"We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices."
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"Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival."
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"Your attitude is a choice you make."
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"In every moment you have the choice to be a victim or a creator."
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"This is real freedom-the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present."
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"Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics."
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"The essence of God is consciousness. Consciousness can be used for either violence or peace; the choice is ours. When it is expanded, human consciousness chooses non-violence, since that is compatible with love."
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"Happiness can be woven into every aspect of life once you make new choices."
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"What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage."
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"3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before."
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"Guy Lafleur said "Each of us has only one past but there are many futures"."
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"A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Are you unstable about your relationship to Christ?"
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"Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom."
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"But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites."
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"Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire."
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"It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth."
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"Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue."
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