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What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

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Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

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We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less. ↗

— Fred Thompson

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My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history. ↗

— Martin Kippenberger

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High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God. ↗

— Solange Knowles

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Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all. ↗

— Brian Tracy

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The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy. ↗

— David Korten

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When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see. ↗

— Jim Thome

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