"Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions."
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"Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process."
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"It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself."
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"I greatly admire GE, their utterly ruthlessly focused management, to get the cost out and get this integration done.’ Okay, we may make a few mistakes along the way but we are not going to waste any time.' They make decisions; they are incredibly disciplined and focused."
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"I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems."
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"All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last."
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"There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse."
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"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."
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"A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest."
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"In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision."
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"You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community."
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"Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer. Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt."
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"The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was."
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"Make a decision and then make it right. There just are no wrong decisions. You could go this way, or that way, and either way will eventually get you to where you want to be. But in the moment you start complimenting yourself on the decision you've made, in that moment, you come back into vibrational alignment with who-you-really-are."
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"All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions."
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"My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy."
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"In strategic decisions, I'd be really concerned about overconfidence."
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"Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do."
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"If you want to reach a state of Bliss - make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge."
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"The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision."
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