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“He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.”

Way Different Ends Choices Attention Watches Too Much Journey Lays Accidents Different Ways Comparison Pauses Probability Adjustment

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler

“For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.”

Matter Choices Christianity Atheism Lays Positive Atheism

Book:The Works of George Santayana: Interpretations of the poetry and religion. Hamlet. Shelley. Dickens. Tragic philosophy

Source: The Works of George Santayana: Interpretations of the poetry and religion. Hamlet. Shelley. Dickens. Tragic philosophy

“Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond.”

Source: Oliver Twist: Or, The Parish Boy's Progress

“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

“Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.”

Men Able Faces Choices Influence Duty Claims Lays Climate Face To Face Blunders Locality

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. But, either it was different in blood,- Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,- Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it.”

Ifs Different War Running Choices Courses Blood Lays Tales Sickness Smooth Siege

Book:The works of William Shakespeare

Source: The works of William Shakespeare

“Increasingly, we will be faced with a choice: whether to keep the oceans for wild fish or farmed fish. Farming domesticated species in close proximity with wild fish will mean that domesticated fish always win. Nobody in the world of policy appears to be asking what is best for society, wild fish or farmed fish. And what sort of farmed fish, anyway? Were this question to be asked, and answered honestly, we might find that our interests lay in prioritizing wild fish and making their ecosystems more productive by leaving them alone enough of the time.”

Source: The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat