"What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead."
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"We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation."
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"I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am."
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"The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are."
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"We’re not living in an age of no hope. We are living in the age of choice, which is much scarier. It means that what we do every day matters, which is always a bummer for humans. But it’s a great thing and it’s inspirational and we need to remember that. We have a long way to go and not a long time to get there."
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"I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change"
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"You've got to make choices that make sense for you because there's always going to be somebody who'll think you should do something differently."
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"The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice."
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"Be strong. Don't be a follower, and always do the right thing. If you have a choice between the right thing and the wrong thing, the right way is always the less stressful."
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"I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed."
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"Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well."
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"You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you - your own choices - what you get from others remains a present, a gift."
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"Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity."
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"The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control."
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"To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly."
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"You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live."
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"If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives."
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"I would like to maximize the level of human choice in the medical field...The choice of a treatment in many ways is like the exercise of religion."
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"We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not."
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"He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for."
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