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If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.
KENNETH BURKE, Towards a Better Life
We are free up to the point of choice, and then the choice controls the chooser.
MARY CROWLEY, String of Pearls
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice--their choice.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, speech, Oct. 9, 1956
How could a choice be called free when its consequences are unknown at the time of our choosing?
KENNETH BURKE, Towards a Better Life
- I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate
- Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.
I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
JEANETTE WINTERSON, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
A man has to know he had a choice before he can enjoy what he chose.
KEN KESEY, Sometimes a Great Notion
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, foreward, You Learn by Living
Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.
JEANETTE WINTERSON, Sexing the Cherry
I believe the measure of a man isn't just the road he's traveled; it's the choices he's made along the way.
JOE BIDEN, acceptance speech, Aug. 27, 2008
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON, The Proud Highway
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