"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice."

James, William on choice
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"We do pretty much whatever we want to."

Johnson, Philip on choice   

"Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative."

Kohe, J. Martin on choice   

"No one ever went broke by saying no too often."

Mackay, Harvey on choice
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"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

Peart, Neil on choice
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"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on choice
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"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

Waitley, Denis on choice
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"The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak."

Bossuet, Jacques BeNigne on weakness
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"Weaklings must lie."

Richter, Jean Paul on weakness   

"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"

Stevenson, Robert Louis on weakness
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"It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned."

Hoffer, Eric on weakness   

"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di on courage
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"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

Allen, James on courage
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"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

Beaton, Sir Cecil on courage
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"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them."

Cavour, Camillo Benso Conte Di on trust
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"I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity."

Chatham, William Pitt The Elder, Lord on trust
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"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."

Crane, Frank on trust
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"The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment."

Syrus, Publilius on disappointments   

"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing."

Syrus, Publilius on eyes
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"The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them."

Syrus, Publilius on favors   

"To refuse graciously is to confer a favor."

Syrus, Publilius on favors   

"Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world."

Syrus, Publilius on gossip   

"One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people."

Syrus, Publilius on gratitude   

"If you would live innocently, seek solitude."

Syrus, Publilius on innocence
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"It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man."

Syrus, Publilius on integrity
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"It is not every question that deserves an answer."

Syrus, Publilius on interviews
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"A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation."

Syrus, Publilius on judgment and judges   

"It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny."

Syrus, Publilius on kindness   

"The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body."

Syrus, Publilius on pain
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"To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self."

Syrus, Publilius on association
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"Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear."

Syrus, Publilius on risk   

"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."

Acton, Lord on argument
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"When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge."

Bradshaw, Terry on challenges
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"Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them."

Franklin, Benjamin on argument
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"When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty."

Fuller, Thomas on argument
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"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate."

Joubert, Joseph on argument
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"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."

Joubert, Joseph on argument
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"You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag."

Koch, Edward on argument   

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Bacon, Francis on lies and lying   

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"Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it"

Beecher, Lyman on lies and lying
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