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Jai Ganesh

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Choice Quotes - IV

Choice Quotes - IV

1. Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. - Samuel Johnson

2. What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice. - Ronald Reagan

3. Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. - Aristotle

4. I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow. - Buzz Aldrin

5. I've had no contact with my daughter for years. That's her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don't want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on. - Anthony Hopkins

6. Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. - Oscar Wilde

7. Leadership is a choice, not a position. - Stephen Covey

8. I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup. - Drew Barrymore.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

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