#decisions

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#decisions #justice #know #longer #memory

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered. ↗

— Marvin Bower

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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#care #company #decisions #health #health care

While different people may approach opportunities in different ways, we need to base decisions on a fundamental set of values as we chart our course of action. ↗

— Ron D. Burton

#approach #base #chart #course #decisions

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong! ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#allows #behind #cape #closed #committee

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. ↗

— David Byrne

#gets #ignored #life #lot #mundane

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions. ↗

— George Carey

#got #politicians #these #trust

Sometimes decisions get made and it ends up being God doing for you what you couldn't do for yourself. ↗

— Charisma Carpenter

#decisions #doing #ends #get #god

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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