#choice

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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

— Oscar Wilde

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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. ↗

— George Eliot

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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order. ↗

— Basil Hume

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From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives. ↗

— John Hutton

#empowers #health #i #know #lives

People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.' ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

#cities #multiplicity #point

I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place. ↗

— Louise Jameson

#any #anyway #audition #choice #dinner

Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this liberty of theirs? What woman really prefers a job to a home and family? Very few, I admit. It is unfortunate that they should so often have to make the choice. A man does not, as a rule, have to choose. He gets both. Nevertheless, there have been women ... who had the choice, and chose the job and made a success of it. And there have been and are many men who have sacrificed their careers for women ... When it comes to a choice, then every man or woman has to choose as an individual human being, and, like a human being, take the consequences. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#choice #clichés #double-standards #empowerment #feminism