#dec

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

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I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay. ↗

— Famke Janssen

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It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues. ↗

— Al Jarreau

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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment. ↗

— Ken Jennings

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I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules. ↗

— Joan Jett

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