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“Our membership of the euro is a guarantee of monetary stability and creates the right conditions for sustainable growth. Our membership of the euro is the only choice.”

Choices Growth Conditions Guarantees Stability Monetary Euro Membership

Author:Lucas Papademos

“I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.”

People Choices Brain Conditions Size Transgender Physiological Hypothalamus

Author:Mercedes Ruehl

“Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires constant vigilance against entropic noise. Order is not spontaneous, but it is a necessary condition for all the surprises of freedom and opportunity.”

Order Choices Opportunity Conditions Economics Constant Surprise Noise Spontaneous Freedom Of Choice Vigilance Entropy Carrier Janus

Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.”

Knows Life Is Spirit Choices Conditions Circumstances Luck Generosity

Author:Mike Leigh

“The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.”

Choices Powerful Conditions Style Identity Property Dwelling Our Choices Emblems

Book:From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place

Source: From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place

“I think all people's lives are controlled by their decisions. You look at people's lives - it's not their conditions, it's their decisions. So everybody has a choice and every moment in your life you're making decisions.”

People Thinking Looks Moments Choices Decision Conditions Controlled Making Decisions

Author:Tony Robbins

“A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.”

Giving Philosophy Choices Gone Generations Groups Economic Conditions Bears Filled Salvation Chosen Brands Variety New Generation

Book:Coming of Age in Samoa

Source: Coming of Age in Samoa

“To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.”

Hands Choices Conditions Workers Determine

Book:The American Federationist

Source: The American Federationist

“Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.”

Art Reality Artist Choices Literature Social Wealth Deals Conditions Talent Position Pages Ordinary Psychological Realism Exceptional Imaginative Freedom Of Choice

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable. It erodesassumptions about the nature of our reality, the "pattern" in which we dwell, and lays open new choices.”

World Reality Choices Change Technology Conditions Materials Shapes Lays Patterns Horizon Realism Technological Material World Technological Change

Author:Shoshana Zuboff

“There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle. In concentrating on the ends of choice, the conservative, by neglecting the conditions of choice, loses that very morality of conduct with which he is so concerned. And the libertarian, by concentrating only on the means, or conditions, of choice and ignoring the ends, throws away an essential moral defense of his own position.”

“Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.”

Character Choices Conditions Limits Imperatives Constraints Our Choices

Book:The Reagan phenomenon, and other speeches on foreign policy

Source: The Reagan phenomenon, and other speeches on foreign policy

“Technologically, modern man does everything he can do-he functions on this single boundary principle. Modern man, seeing himself as autonomous, with no personal-infinite God who has spoken, has no adequate universal to supply an adequate second boundary condition; and man being fallen is not only finite, but sinful. Thus man's pragmatically made choices have no reference point beyond human egotism. It is dog eat dog, man eat man, man eat nature.”

“The strengths a young person finds in adults at this time-their willingness to let him experiment, their eagerness to confirm him at his best, their consistency in correcting his excesses, and the guidance they give him-will codetermine whether or not he eventually makes order out of necessary inner confusion and applies himself to the correction of disordered conditions. He needs freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that he cannot, in fact, make a choice.”

Needs Giving Persons Facts Young Order Choices Teaching Conditions Adults Experiments Confusion Guidance Willingness Excess Consistency Corrections Correcting Eagerness Freedom To Choose

Author:Erik Erikson