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Choice

«The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.»
Author: Anna Letitia Barbauld | About: Choice | Keywords: characteristic
«The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.»
«The choice open to us is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according to some absolute and universal standard of right, and one where the individual shares are determined partly by accident or good will or chance, but b»
Author: Friedrich August Hayek | About: Choice | Keywords: good will, partly, shares
«The real world is complex and sometimes none of the choices we have are good ones. If Attila the Hun is coming through, it's not a matter of being moral. It's kill or be killed.»
«The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose»
Author: Thornton Wilder | About: Choice, Decision | Keywords: aware, decisions, forced
«The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice»
Author: Doug Larson | About: Choice, Generations
«The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.»
«The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements»
«There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.»
«The people of Serbia want to have a say in the decisions affecting them. And I hope that this choice and their voice will be heard.»
Author: Kofi Annan | About: Choice, People | Keywords: Serbia

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