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"No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train." Amos Bronson Alcott 4.0000 average rating  
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret." Henri-Frédéric Amiel 4.7333 average rating  
"We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, 'Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith.' We can decide to risk that He is indeed there, watching, caring, cherishing us as we love and accept love. The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance." Joan Wester Anderson 4.4800 average rating  
"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react." Gloria Anzaldua 4.9333 average rating  
"No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . ." Isaac Asimov 4.7143 average rating  
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now." Joan Baez 4.7000 average rating  
"A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday." Russell Wayne Baker 2.3333 average rating  
"The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil." Georges Bataille 4.0000 average rating  
"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense." Thomas Arnold Bennett 4.5000 average rating  
"Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true." Lester R(obert) Bittel 4.5217 average rating  
"It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own." Dietrich Bonhoeffer 4.5000 average rating  
"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves." Dietrich Bonhoeffer 4.6667 average rating  
"Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self-a felt void or need; second, a decision to change-to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change-the willful act of making the change; Doing Something." Dr. 4.4091 average rating  
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone." Coco Chanel 5.0000 average rating  
"Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones." I Ching 4.8000 average rating  
"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss." Noam Chomsky 4.6250 average rating  
"There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past." Noam Chomsky 4.5455 average rating  
"I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision." Barber B. Conable, Jr  
"Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision." Barber B. Conable, Jr 4.0000 average rating  
"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones." Stephen R. Covey 3.9231 average rating  
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