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"To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide."
"There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced."
"If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that 'Of course we have free will, we have no choice.' To say that it's a gift is to negate the whole concept of free will on its face. So, if that isn't self-evident, I can't think of anything that would meet the definition of being self-evident."
"The campaign to put a woman on the $20 bill has narrowed the choices down to four finalists. The four finalists are Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Flo from the Progressive Insurance ads."
"Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice."
"For the poor any choice was a gift with two faces."
"The selection of MediLab came after an extensive evaluation process. The laboratory in Zambia presented many challenges such as rapidly expanding services and capacity, the need to coordinate laboratory services for 16 and soon to be 24 clinics in the Lusaka district alone, the need to automate recording and dissemination of results and the need for a robust, expandable, user friendly and technically supported LIMS system. The technology and international experience of MediSolution made MediLab an obvious choice."
"To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed."
"Be at peace with your choices.They all serve you."
"I think we're all sort of imprisoned by - or at least bound to - the choices we make... You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly."
"There's a way of life, there's a way of death. Which way are you on?"
"Give your life to Christ, he'll challenge you."
"Even our pets can become idols."
"Don't wavier. Make a decision. Do it now."
"The problems of peace are greater than the problems of war."
"You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God."
"You cannot serve god and mammon. You have to make a choice."
"Not to decide is to decide not to, nowhere in the bible does it promise tomorrow."
"There are people that say they will do better but they never do better. They have no power in them to do better until they come to Christ."
"Alexander the great was ask how he conquered the world he said, "by not waivering"."
