- Nov 07, 2020
Choice Quotes
On decisions that carry real weight.
These choice quotes explore decision-making at very different scales — personal control through encryption, an artist's preference for theatre because of its immediate audience reaction, and game design built entirely around choice and consequence. One line looks back critically at how public support for the Iraq war leaned on fear linking 9/11 to unproven weapons claims, a sober historical reflection. See Choose quotes for a closely related angle.
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- Doctors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many doctors are stuck in the idea that addiction is a choice, and they don't treat that.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The court has to decide which of our approved desires has the better claim, right here, right now, and a court has to do more than read fairly when it makes this kind of choice.
- Conditioned
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- Nov 07, 2020
In deciding among theological views, one should be something of a consequentialist: the choice of one theological position over another should be, if not actually determined, at least heavily conditioned by the fact that it implies a better ethical outcome than the alternatives.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
You almost have no choice but to continue to innovate because if you don't, you are likely to atrophy rather than expand.
- Nov 07, 2020
To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
- Training
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- Nov 07, 2020
And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.
- Gain
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- Nov 07, 2020
When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.
- Combative
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.
- Nov 07, 2020
Civility is a choice.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have practically no private life. I'm already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020