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"Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not."	Philip
"To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life."	Arbie M. Dale
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward."	Robyn Davidson
"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision."	Robyn Davidson
"I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously."	General Charles De Gaulle
"Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."	Peter F(erdinand) Drucker
"The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature."	William Sherman Pene du Bois
"When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes."	Thomas Alva Edison
"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."	Tryon Edwards
"It is the theory that decides what we can observe."	Albert Einstein
"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference."	Chris(tine) Marie Evert
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."	Robert Lee Frost
"The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered."	André Gide
"You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide."	Ira Glasser
"I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. 'That was fun,' I said. 'You bet it was,' said Nick. 'Let's climb higher.' 'No,' I said. 'I think we should be heading back now.' 'We have time,' Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Frank knew that no man had ever crossed the desert on foot and lived to tell about it. So, he decided to get back in his car and keep driving."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but you know what? They never find him. And you know why they never find him? It doesn't say. The book leaves it up to you, the reader, to decide. Then, at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
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Dr.	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	General Charles De Gaulle
Georges Bataille	Gloria Anzaldua	Hannah Nixon
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I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	James X. Mullen
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Kitty Kelley	Lester R(obert) Bittel	Lyndon Baines Johnson
Marilyn Monroe	Marilyn Moats Kennedy	Mark McGee
Michio Kushi	Noam Chomsky	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Peter F(erdinand) Drucker	Philip	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Lee Frost
Robyn Davidson	Russell Wayne Baker	R. A. Lafferty
Shirley Mount Hufstedler	Sir John Lubbock	Stephen R. Covey
Theodore M. Hesburgh	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Arnold Bennett	Tryon Edwards	William James
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