"To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions."
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"Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day."
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"I should be able to pick which applications I use for managing my life, I should be able to pick which content I look at, and I should be able to pick which device I use, which company I use for supplying my internet, and I'd like those to be independent choices."
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"Marketing used to be what you say Now, marketing is what you do. What you make. How you act. The choices you make when you are sure no one is looking."
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"When people are given a moderate number of options (4 to 6) rather than a large number (20 to 30), they are more likely to make a choice, are more confident in their decisions, and are happier with what they choose."
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"Cable is not bound because people pay for it. It's literally a choice, that's the operative word. If you don't like the language, if cocksucker offends you, then turn it off."
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"Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher."
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"We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?"
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"John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me."
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"Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the power of decision. Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have indecision, there is an unclarity about time."
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"You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live."
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"If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice."
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"That's really what wealth does for you. It gives you freedom to make choices."
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"I'm single by choice. Not my choice."
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"Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness."
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"For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices."
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"Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea."
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"When you’re different you’ve got two choices. You can stand out or you step back."
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"every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing"
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"I make positive choices so I can be happy."
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