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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. ↗

— George Ade

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He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to Cambridge to see it. This was in April of 1953. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

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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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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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Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence. ↗

— Steve Jobs

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The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment. ↗

— Steve Jobs

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The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing. ↗

— Nastassja Kinski

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