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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"The human species is now at a point where it has to make choices that are going to determine whether decent survival is even possible. Environmental catastrophe, including war, maybe pandemics, these are very serious issues and they can't be addressed within the current structure of institutions. That's almost given. There have to be real significant changes, and only really effective popular mass-based movements can introduce and carry forward such initiatives, as indeed did happen during the 1930s."

Real War Choices
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"We should certainly not be perpetuating further harm to others or to the environment. Suppose that workers at ExxonMobil are trying to unionize. We have two choices: to help them improve their lives, or to keep away so that their lives will be worse. Neither choice has any effect on use of fossil fuels. So radical organizers can both help them unionize and improve their lives, and convince them to find a different way to survive and work for ending the use of fossil fuels."

Trying Two Choices
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Private companies can make a personal profile, direct you to things - they will say - that you would be interested in, but that's their choice not your choice."

Would Be Choices Profile
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Fred Thompson Politician
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"So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly"

Want Choices Relationship
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Fred Upton Politician
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"I do know that all of the Michigan delegation worked very hard as related to the revival of the auto industry. There was really a choice between bankruptcy and liquidation. There was no one that was willing to come up not only with the cash to keep them afloat but also to serve the warranties of everyone, you and I that drive all these cars. There was no one that could have picked up those pieces other than the federal government. [The auto bailout was] bipartisan from the get-go. [Without it,] Michigan would have hit 40 percent unemployment rates."

Government Choices Car
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Fred Upton Politician
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"Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology."

Needs Choices Innovation
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Henry James Author
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"If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify."

Artist Choices Faces
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Freeman Dyson Theoretical Physicist
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"The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all."

Way Trying Choices
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Kevin B. Rollins Business Executive
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"We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good."

Opportunity Choices Focus
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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"If it were a choice between me getting killed or one of my friend's kids, I would happily take the shot."

Kids Choices Shots
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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it."

Men Choices Challenges
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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it."

Men Choices Climate
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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one."

Self Choices Sacrifice
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Ki Longfellow Author
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"... is it truly possible to steal a life, if... the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who 'murders' does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit."

Self Doe Choices
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Kim Harrison Author
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"We could've done this anywhere, but I wanted you to see me, to see this," he said, gesturing at the room. "I wanted you to know where I come from, what I am under the choices I make."

Done Choices Rooms
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Kim Harrison Author
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"But why allow someone to make a bad choice when a little information might engender a better one? It's hard to wake up and see the sun if the blinds are pulled."

Littles Choices Wake Up
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"We've all done things we wish we hadn't, made choices we didn't even know were choices at that time. but that doesn't mean we have to stick by them. In life, you find out who you are gradually, not all at once. You made a bad choice, okay? But you can still get out of it."

Mean Choices Wish
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