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Jai Ganesh

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Choice Quotes - VII

Choice Quotes - VII

1. Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. - Aristotle

2. I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, 'Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice.' - Demi Moore

3. We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. - Stephen Covey

4. The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! - Dwight D. Eisenhower

5. There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return. - Dag Hammarskjold

6. Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice. - Sundar Pichai

7. The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story. - Keanu Reeves

8. What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part? - Shimon Peres.

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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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