- Conscious Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
When somebody makes a decision on what they think they need to do, I don't question it at all.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.
- Debatable
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fathers always give tips. My dad also gives me, but at the end, he says the decision has to be mine.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every business decision I ever made I learned from my grandfather Papa Sam. He moved here from Russia when he was a boy. He worked his way up selling newspapers and ladies' handbags, and eventually, he became Cadillac Sam, one of the biggest car dealers in Chicago.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother made the courageous decision to flee a tyrannized Cuba in the 1950s and bring her children to the United States, where I was born.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's just what 'The 100' does. They like to put their characters in a position where no decision is the right one, you know? You have to kind of just hope that it works out.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That's a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.
- Family Planning
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are fewer unwanted pregnancies and fewer occasions where a woman is confronted with that decision if she has access to family planning and birth control. That's why I support Planned Parenthood; that's why I support Title X.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020