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"Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours."
"Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason."
"What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action."
"He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision."
"If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people."
"You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make"
"Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don't like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know."
"Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it."
"To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation."
"If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives."
"Don't make decisions based on the fear."
"The people who control America today make decisions like drunkards. They do not understand what they are doing at all."
"Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is."
"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons."
"The right decisions come from the right focus. You’ll succeed if your focus is on the mission, not the money."
"The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man."
"Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions."
"We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions."
"This miracle is in the small things of daily life; we must live in the understanding that at every moment there is a way out of each problem, the way of finding that which is missing, the right clue to the decision which must be taken in order to change our entire future."
"Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all."
