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Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews. ↗

— Shakira

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You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence. ↗

— Julien Smith

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Happiness doesn't have to be chased...it merely has to be chosen. ↗

— Mandy Hale

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No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

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But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist. ↗

— Tony Lema

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We may know our true purpose in life, because we may choose our purpose in life. ↗

— Bryant McGill

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When everyone feels free to tell you the truth, respect for you dwindles… A wise prince should take another course: choose wise men for your advisors, and allow only them the liberty of speaking the truth to the prince, and only on matters about which you ask, and nothing else. But you should question them about everything, listen patiently to their opinions, then form your own conclusions later. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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