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“Unless we decide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within just a few years from now, our destinies will already be chosen and our path towards hell unalterable as the carbon cycle feedbacks... kick in one after another.”

Years Destiny Hell Path Climate Chosen Kicks Gas Cycles Carbon Feedback Our Destiny Emissions Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Carbon Cycle

Author:Mark Lynas

“We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does cultural development represent a real advance in human sensitivity, or is it chiefly a diversion for elites and a weapon of class exploitation?”

Should Humans Doe Real Asks Ability Music Class Development Weapons Musical Chosen Supposed To Be Elites Exploitation Sensitivity Diversion Musical Ability

Book:How Musical is Man?

Source: How Musical is Man?

“Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.”

Sometimes Film Chosen Posters

Author:Jean Paul Gaultier

“I really believe it's time for some of us to stop apologizing for God and start apologizing to Him for being embarrassed by the ways He has chosen to reveal Himself”

Way Believe Chosen Apologizing Embarrassed

Book:The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

“The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.”

People Fate Prove Jew Absence Chosen Redemption Witness

Book:Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought

Source: Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought

“A man can't ask for much more than the chance to make a difference in his chosen field of work. Politics is my vocation. I'm forever grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this great country of ours. I know I am a better person for it.”

Knows Men Persons Country Asks Opportunity Differences Chance Forever Fields Grateful Chosen Making A Difference Vocation Better Person Great Country Forever Grateful

Author:Jean Chretien

“I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.”

“That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow's lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.”

Thinking World Littles Heaven Stars Sleep Tomorrow Bird Leaving Caring Chosen Shelter Clinging Twigs

Author:Martin Luther

“Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with everybody (including yourself), yours is not a successful life. Existence becomes futile if you cannot find happiness. When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure.”

Ifs Mind Littles Lost Goal Wealth Existence Successful Trouble Highest Consequence Including Treasure Chosen Fulfillment Peace Of Mind Finding Happiness Successful Life Lost You

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.”

Ifs Thinking Men Kind Reason Speak Language Term Accepting Moral Atheism Understood Chosen Rational Contradiction Commandments

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.”

People Party Leader Democracy Chosen Interfere Shut Up

Book:From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

“There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.”

Said Government Chosen Mechanism Schemes Trading Reduction Emissions

Author:Tony Abbott

“Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.”

Years Book Hours Knowledge Week Fields Work Out Chosen Fifty Guarantees

Author:Brian Tracy

“This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one's happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It's only that our social relations, while vital to us all, must be chosen - that is what makes the crucial difference.”

Social Differences Liberty Relation Chosen Pursue Crucial Individualism Right To Life Individualistic Social Relations

Author:Tibor R. Machan

“But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no rational man or woman would have chosen this way of life - therefore, it is madness. Alone I confront them and tell them that nothing could be saner or truer! What do people really know about life? We fall in line, follow the pattern established by our mentors. Everything is based on assumptions; even time, space, motion, matter are nothing but supposition. The world has no new knowledge to impart; it merely accepts what is there.”

People Knows Men World Way Looks Matter Fall Lines Space Accepting Break Madness Patterns Chosen Rational Assumption Look Up Mentor Shocked Impart Supposition New Knowledge

Author:Knut Hamsun

“Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. ... I have chosen the word “atom” to signify these ultimate particles.”

Matter Science Degrees Ultimate Extremes Chosen Division Atoms Nevertheless Particles

Author:John Dalton

“We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.”

May Chosen

Author:John Lewis

“The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.”

Artist Opinion Chosen Command Overwhelmed Public Opinion Chosen By God

Author:Albrecht Durer

“The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.”

Action Violence Organization Israel Terrorist Chosen Gaza Lebanon Hamas Hezbollah

Author:Alcee Hastings

“Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing to do with politics. This is yet another example of McCain and Palin distorting the truth, and all the more reason to remember that this campaign is not about gender, it is about which candidate has an agenda that will improve the lives of all Americans, including women. The truth is, if you care about the status of women in our society and in our troubled economy, the best choice by far is Obama-Biden.”

“True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at this moment. This inner alignment with Now is the end of suffering. Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion. You would not be reading this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.”

Source: Stillness Speaks

“You need to ask yourself, ‘Where do you want to work: startups, mid-size or large companies?’ If you find yourself debating the ‘startup versus large company’ choice you’ve already chosen the big company. Entrepreneurship isn’t a career choice it’s a passion and obsession.”

Ifs Want Needs Bigs Choices Passion Asks Company Careers Size Chosen Obsession Entrepreneurship Finding Yourself Versus Big Companies Careers Choices Large Companies

Author:Steve Blank

“Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.”

Said Desire Bits Notion Chosen Quaint

Author:Christiane Amanpour

“Every defensive end who is going to be picked in the first round is going to be a good pick for whoever they're chosen by, but if I had to tell you what sets me apart, that would be my desire and determination to get better. I know what I need to work on, I know my weaknesses, but I have that work ethic to improve every day. I have that want to be the best player at my position, and I have the belief in myself that one day that will come true.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Firsts Ends Would Be Desire Belief Player Position One Day Picks Ethics Weakness Determination Rounds Chosen Get Better Being The Best Work Ethic Best Players

Author:Justin Tuck

“A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit.”

People Country Young Planets Disease Chosen Alternatives Units Garbage Banality Garbage Disposal

Book:Situationism: A Compendium

Source: Situationism: A Compendium

“A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization the state of affairs, arising out of a struggle against poverty, has overshot its ultimate goal-the liberation of man from material cares-and has become an obsessive image hanging over the present. Offered the choice of love or a garbage disposal, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal.”

People Men Country States Care Young Choices Goal Poverty Struggle Planets Materials Disease Ultimate Affair Chosen Liberation Garbage Obsessive Ultimate Goal Garbage Disposal

Author:Ivan Chtcheglov

“The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away. The way back seems harder every year. If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding, through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations. And thus humanity closes the door on its past.”

“Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random”

Should Numbers Method Chosen Programming Mathematician Computer Science Randomness

Book:Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms

Source: Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms

“You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes.”

Ifs Sometimes Hard Enough Fun Path Risk Entrepreneur Chosen Wrong Path

Author:Marc Benioff

“Potential does not always ensure success. The greatest players have not always been the most endowed. In athletics, we often hear the phrase, "He has the will to win". I think this is wrong. We can have the greatest will to do well. But unless we have prepared, it is of little use. Really, it should be the "will to prepare". Those who succeed have this will, whether it be in athletics, whether it be in school, whether it be in their chosen vocation, whether it be on a mission, or in almost any other phase of their life.”

Thinking Should Wells Littles Doe Use School Success Winning Player Succeed Prepared Missions Chosen Preparation Phrases Phases Vocation Athletics Will To Win

Author:LaVell Edwards

“You'll never know everything about the person you've chosen to marry. But the more information you have before entering into this commitment, the less chance you will be confronted with unfulfillable expectations.”

Knows Persons Chance Information Expectations Commitment Chosen Preparation Entering

Author:Jerry Hardin

“He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.”

Wells Library Chosen Dishes Flavor Admirable

Author:William Godwin

“In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account. In the long run, a portfolio of poorly chosen stocks won't outperform the money left under the mattress.”

Wells Long Running Left Accounts Investing Chosen Fund Mutual Long Runs Equity Portfolios Mattresses Mutual Fund

Book:Beating the Street

Source: Beating the Street

“Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly sliding down the path to failure. If a straight, honorable path has been chosen, the gaining of the summit yields lasting satisfaction. The morass of failure, if through laziness, indifference or other avoidable fault, yields nothing but ignominy and sorrow for self and family and friends.”

Ifs May Has Beens Self Success Joy Path Sorrow Faults Satisfaction Genuine Chosen Hills Indifference Lasting Yield Climbing Sweat Laziness Honorable Toes Family And Friends Summit Ignominy

Author:B. C. Forbes

“God is always at work, though we cannot see it, preparing people he has chosen for leadership. When the crisis comes, God fits His appointee into the place ordained for him.”

People Leadership Fit Crisis Chosen Preparing

Book:Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer

Source: Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer

“It is regrettable that Senator Kennedy has chosen Veteran's Day to continue leveling baseless and false attacks that send the wrong signal to our troops and our enemy during a time of war. It is also regrettable that Senator Kennedy has found more time to say negative things about President Bush then he ever did about Saddam Hussein. If America were to follow Senator Kennedy's foreign policy, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, he would be oppressing and occupying Kuwait.”

“But I'll say this: I've never been more honored to sing about Jesus and for Jesus. And I've never been more sure of the path I've chosen.”

Jesus Path Chosen Honored

Author:Natalie Grant

“In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.”

“An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.”

Children Self Energy Interesting Virtue Pieces Capacity Add Chosen Concentration Mastery Fatigue Self Mastery

Author:Maria Montessori

“And first and foremost, think straight, trust the quiet inner voice that tells you what to do. You hold your life in your hands, don't entrust it to anyone else, least of all to your chosen leaders. BE YOURSELF! Any number of great men have told you that.”

Thinking Men Firsts Hands Voice Numbers Leader Quiet Chosen Being Yourself Great Men Inner Voice

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.”

Awareness Keys Expectations Chosen Versus

Author:Bill Crawford

“My feeling is that for years now it has taken a much too big part in how women are being visually defined today. Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.”

Should Years Feelings Bigs Today Taken Century Tools Chosen Defined Heartless Retouching

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.”

Kind Seems Atheism Ignorance Atheist Patterns Believer Practicals Chosen Denial Clergy

Author:Richard Rohr

“Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose for transcription their favourite verse in one poem and another.”

Ifs Giving Should May Children Made Book Certain Pleasure Exercise Delight Possession Chosen Passages Favourite Verses Transcription

Author:Charlotte Mason

“On a day when all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, are celebrating the growth of freedom and honoring the sacrifices of American and Iraqi troops with elections in Iraq, it's sad that John Kerry has chosen once again to offer vacillation and defeatism. Even after the first free elections in Iraq in more than 50 years John Kerry still believes Iraq is more of terrorist threat than when the brutal tyrant Saddam Hussein was in power and even more remarkably Kerry is now once again for funding our troops, after being for the funding before he was against it.”

“In jazz improv, there is no such thing as wrong notes, only notes that are better chosen and it's not about the note you play, it's about the note you play next.”

Play Next Jazz Notes Chosen

Author:Larry Carlton

“I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.”

World Way Feels Kind Problem Night Stuff Hours Deals Chosen All Kinds Therapy Freak Aggression Shrinks One Hour Chosen One

Author:Jonathan Davis

“I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.”

Children Hard Differences Religious Compassion Teach Focus Wife Honesty Hard Work Benefits Our Children Catholic Charity Raised My Wife Chosen Heritage Similarity Respect Each Other

Author:Steven Levitan

“Over the last 40 years, I have built MW into a multi-billion dollar company with amazing employees and loyal customers who value the products and service they receive at MW. Over the past several months I have expressed my concerns to the Board about the direction the company is currently heading.Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the Boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the Board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer.”

“If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so. The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Past Opportunity Available Determined Chosen Vulnerable Fearful Think Of You Past Experiences Experience Yourself

Book:The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

Source: The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

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