• In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  4.8 · 53 votes · 168 reads

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• It is always your next move.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.9 · 11 votes · 129 reads

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• It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  5.0 · 16 votes · 165 reads

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• Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.7 · 19 votes · 144 reads

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• Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

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  James Allen

  EssayistAmerican1864 · 19th century

  4.6 · 63 votes · 117 reads

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• Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 12 votes · 128 reads

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• No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.

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  Anonymous

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• Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose.

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  Anonymous

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• One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. 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.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.7 · 57 votes · 1 reads

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• The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  3.9 · 23 votes · 8 reads

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• The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  3.3 · 28 votes · 113 reads

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• There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.

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  Anonymous

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• There is an election going on all the time... the Lord votes for you and Satan votes against you, and you must cast the deciding vote.

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  Anonymous

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• Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.0 · 27 votes · 66 reads

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• We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 53 votes · 20 reads

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• When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.5 · 8 votes · 176 reads

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• Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.

  

  Mae West

  ComedianAmerican1893 · 19th century

  3.7 · 31 votes · 54 reads

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• Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.2 · 27 votes · 65 reads

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• You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your

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  Anonymous

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• You can't choose up sides on a round world.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.6 · 57 votes · 156 reads

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• You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 15 votes · 19 reads

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• You must give up the way it is... to have it the way you want it

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 30 votes · 164 reads

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