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“The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical considerations. It is the explanation - the only one that is tenable - of a remarkable and counter-intuitive reality.”

“Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.”

Light Inspiration Happiness Success Motivation Hope Speed Impossibility Exceed Decree Optional Speed Of Light

Author:Robert Breault

“In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.”

Seems Political Media Truth Is Being True Optional

Author:Thomas Sowell

“I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.”

Believe Humans Moments Joy Suffering Found I Believe Human Beings Simple My Thoughts Single Mom Being Free Katie Optional Joy Within

Book:Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)

“If you think that the gospel is all about what we can do, that the practice of it is optional, and that conversion is simply something that anyone can choose at any time, then I'm concerned that you'll think of evangelism as nothing more than a sales job where the prospect is to be won over to sign on the dotted line by praying a prayer, followed by an assurance that he is the proud owner of salvation.”

Ifs Thinking Jobs Can Do Lines Prayer Practice Proud Praying Concerned Salvation Conversion Owners Assurance Evangelism Optional

Author:Mark Dever

“Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.”

Suffering Struggle Optional

Book:Forbidden Falls

Source: Forbidden Falls

“I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk.”

Ifs World Humans Understanding Interest Moral Capable Gold Obligation Rational Jerk Optional Hoarding Moral Obligation Understanding The World

Author:Charlie Munger

“Survival is optional. No one has to change.”

Survival Improvement Optional

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.”

Pain Suffering Optional

Author:Jhene Aiko

“Optional is latin for 'Be There'.”

Latin Optional

Author:Darryl Sutter

“Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?”

Christ Christianity Obedience Optional

Author:K.P. Yohannan

“The Emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!”

Lifestyle Clothings Emperor Optional Endorsing

Book:Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

Source: Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

“For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for our divisions are a real stumbling-block to the proclamation of the Gospel.”

Real Christian India Unity Block Extras Division Missionary Asia Urgent Pacific Stumbling Proclamation Optional Stumbling Blocks Christian Unity

Author:John Vockler

“[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.”

Ifs Looks Stories Walking Wander Narrative Hiking Mountaineering Mountain Climbing Optional High Places

Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc]”

Thinking World Way Doe Pain Life Is Suffering Quality Gratitude Grateful Inevitable Etc Quantity Be Grateful Frequency Duration Optional Pain In Life

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Institutions are becoming naked, and if you're going to be naked … fitness is no longer optional. If you're going to be naked, you better get buff.”

Ifs Becoming Institutions Naked Optional

Author:Don Tapscott

“Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional.”

Reconciliation Optional

Book:Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

Source: Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“Life is painful, suffering is optional.”

Life Is Suffering Painful Optional

Author:Sylvia Boorstein

“The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.”

Middle Minors Optional

Author:Clay Shirky

“Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.”

Invention Optional Parcel

Author:Jeff Bezos

“It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.”

School Leadership Ethics Extras Hospitality Harvard Optional Business School

Author:John Harvey-Jones

“Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional”

Pain Misery Inevitable Optional

Book:Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy!

Source: Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy!

“REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.”

Nations Authority Obedience Republic Governing Optional

Book:The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires

Source: The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires

“Challenges are inevitable, Defeat is optional.”

Success Challenges Defeat Inevitable Optional

Book:How High Can You Bounce?: Turn Setbacks Into Comebacks

Source: How High Can You Bounce?: Turn Setbacks Into Comebacks

“Even when winnin's illogical, losin's still far from optional”

Stills Illogical Optional

Author:T.I.

“All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional.”

Stills Use Winning Can Do Impossible Worst Losing Advantage Obstacles Handle Manage Conquer Insanity Panic Worst Things Illogical Optional

Author:T.I.

“To achieve your dreams, work is required. Suffering is optional.”

Dream Suffering Achieve Your Dreams Optional Hard Work Pays Off Achieving Your Dreams

Author:Jack Canfield

“Achieving the MDGs is not optional; it is an essential investment in a safer, more human and prosperous world”

World Humans Achieve Essentials Investment Prosperous Optional Mdgs

Author:Kofi Annan

“The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about”

Christian Essence Extras Optional

Author:N. T. Wright

“Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.”

Difficulty Inevitable Optional

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Everything is optional. Somethings are illegal. And some things are really gross.”

Illegal Gross Optional

Author:Craig Benzine

“Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of the chador.”

Thinking America Teach Pages Western Lifestyle Versions Shopping Veils Optional Glorification

Author:Erica Jong

“Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.”

Sooner Or Later Orthodoxy Optional

Book:The Best of

Source: The Best of

“Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.”

Approach Patient Determine Illness Optional Illness And Death

Author:Marcia Angell

“I spend five times more money at a chemist shop than I would at a fashion boutique. Clothes shopping is optional for me; shopping at a chemist store is a must.”

Five Fashion Clothes Stores Shops Shopping More Money Chemist Optional Clothes Shopping

Author:Kajol

“My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.”

Language Simple Support Objects Clean Library My Favorite Parameters Optional Syntax Python

Author:Bram Cohen

“How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to constitute. In theory, it should be as binding on rulers as the laws of physics are on engineers who design bridges; in practice, its axioms have become mere options. Of course engineers don't have to take oaths to respect the law of gravity; reality gives them no choice. Politics, as we see, makes all human laws optional for politicians.”

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