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Decision Quotes
The weight of a choice, before and after it's made.
This page collects decision quotes spanning military campaigns, a wartime scientific effort that ultimately went nowhere, and the personal calculus behind everyday choices, like skipping a workout for a role. One entry recalls the internal tug-of-war before founding Teach For America. See our Choice for a closer look at that moment of deciding.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every person I have met who has gone vegan says it is the best decision they have ever made.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among the social networks, LinkedIn can be one of the most useful when it comes to cultivating critical, lucrative business opportunities, since it has a high concentration of business decision makers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers. Auxiliary to this, but not secondary in importance, is a due knowledge of the leading subjects for their inquiry and decision.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reflex of police officers, when making the decision whether to use force and on what scale, must not be a result of instinctive bias, but on objective and discernible factors. As the enforcers of law and order, they have to adhere to the letter of the law and minimize the taints of biases and life long social conditioning.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brown v. Board of Education was arguably the most important decision of the Supreme Court in the 20th century.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gave up on music. I still love to play, but it's too hard to make a living. And I think that was a mature decision to make.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my brother passed away... I made a decision that I might die soon, and if I die, I want people to know who I really am.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Britain doesn't stay in the Single Market or Customs Union, we are very much in favor of a free trade agreement between the U.K. and Europe. We don't want Britain to be punished for its decision to leave, and it is not in our interests for Britain to be punished because we may be the ones who lose out as much if not more than them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brexit is the most complex and difficult political decision our country has had to take in mine and many other lifetimes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.
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- Nov 07, 2020