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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. -Oscar Wilde
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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

Horace Mann
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Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.

Pierre Corneille
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The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. -Thornton Wilder
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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.

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

William James
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It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. -Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Thomas Merton
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The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make as a result of things happening to us. -Jonathan Miller
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I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

Naomi Campbell
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Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.

Marsha Sinetar
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Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power. -Blaine Lee
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

Michael Caine
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Jane Fonda
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Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do. -Mencius
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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Peggy Noonan
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I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyser
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose. -Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.

Carl Yastrzemski
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I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Elisabeth Kubler Ross
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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. -Oscar Wilde
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With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Oprah Winfrey
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Vincent van Gogh
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Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy. -J. K. Rowling
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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander
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Obviously, it's a lot of bodies in a classroom, but we don't have any choice, ... We just have to kind of make do.

John Atkinson
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By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand. -George W. Bush
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