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Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)

Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you chose to be with, and the laws you choose to obey. (Quote by - Charles Millhuff)

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. (Quote by - Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)

The soul of dispatch is decision. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. (Quote by - Madame Dudevant)

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. (Quote by - Ursula K. LeGuin)

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. (Quote by - Steven D. Woodhull)

Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision. (Quote by - Harry A. Hopf)

If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise. (Quote by - Dr. Logain Clendening)

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. (Quote by - Jawaharlal Nehru)

We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small, as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience. (Quote by - Bill W.)

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's own appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. (Quote by - Amelia Earhart)

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do. (Quote by - Lillian Hellman)

Between two stools one sits on the ground. (Quote by - French proverb)

In the three years I played ball, we won six, lost seventeen and tied two. Some statistician ... calculated that we won 75 percent of the games we didn't lose. (Quote by - Roger M. Blough)

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. (Quote by - Henry Kissinger)

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it. (Quote by - Pat Riley)

Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Helps)

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth. (Quote by - Gene Fowler)

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

It is the heart always that sees before the head can see. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

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