#choose

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#attitude #blinders #choose #citizens #civil

Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you. ↗

— James D. Houston

#chooses #material #sometimes #you

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#actually #always #american #attitude #believe

I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#america #between #british #canada #choose

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship. ↗

— Lucan

#chooses #ever #friendship #his #loyal

I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be. ↗

— Michael Michele

#expected #i #more #prepared #than

Choose your love, Love your choice. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#choose #love #our choice #our love #your

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth. ↗

— Marston Morse

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Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. ↗

— Ralph Nader

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People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics. ↗

— Li Peng

#choose #conditions #countries #development #light