"Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives."
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"Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death."
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"I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters."
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"When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace"
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"Danger is very real but fear is a choice."
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"Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish her election, Sh'ath sealed thee for herself."
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"If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search."
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"To have a choice at all is to be privileged."
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"The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice."
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"One choice can transform you!"
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"One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you."
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"Who would talk about the evolutionary mind? Who cares about the good and evil in the evolution of species, and so on? This must be interesting only to the degree to which it informs us in this very present moment regarding our choices that we will make in the creation of our future."
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"In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do."
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"The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly."
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"What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing."
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"With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it."
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"The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think."
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"You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day."
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"If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?"
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"And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody."
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