"Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good."
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"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice."
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"Nothing has to be accepted just because we inherited it."
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"To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent "Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze "The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest."
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"Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience... It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter."
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"This, then, is my choice: I can allow the events of my life to happen to me. Or I can take those very same actions and make them my own. I can live in my own present, risk failure, be assured of failure."
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"Many of you wavier by the way you live."
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"When you come to Christ, you have to give up all the other gods."
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"Some of us want the crown before the cross."
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"You will find God in the church of your choice."
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"For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together."
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"Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more."
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"The mistake that the Bush administration should admit to is not so much that they made the wrong choices. They made the right analysis; they made the right choices. But what they did wrong was the execution of those choices. That was wrong."
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"There are so many things where I realize, like, simple circumstance, like the simple choice that I made one night to not do that and to do this, one night could have changed everything."
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"Choosing to be kind is also a choice to make the Power of Intention active in your life. The beneficial effects of kindness on the immune system and the increased production of serotonin have been proven. Conversely, unkindness weakens the body and puts us into a state of dissonance. So extend acts of kindness; ask for nothing in return."
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"Love's just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don't have much choice about enduring it! We will, whether we want to or not."
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"I forgot my watch. Minutes or hours later, when the panic subsides, that is what I most regret. Not coming here in the first place - that seemed like an obvious choice - but my bare wrist, which makes it impossible for me to know how long I have been sitting in this room. My back aches, which is some indication, but it is not definite enough."
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"To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity."
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"Whether that is me retiring, staying here or going somewhere else, it will be on my terms. I've made it to this point, and I felt great that I have the choice to make it for myself."
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"Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom."
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