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• We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much, if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye?...I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing; but the eye that blinks, that is something.

  Chaim Potok

  Pain, Mean, Eye

  "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok, (p. 217), 1967.

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• The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

  John Conyers

  Needs, Cost, Republican

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• Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

  Karl Barth

  Christian, House, Tree

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• The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Business, Commitment, Weight Loss

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie”, p.143, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Likes, Wells

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• A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

  Herman Melville

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

  Herman Melville (1963). “Works”

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• The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

  John Rawls

  Ignorance, Justice, Principles

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Book, Writing, Good Friend

  Louisa May Alcott (2001). “Little Women”, p.584, Broadview Press

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• I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

  Kate Moss

  Responsibility, Media, Anorexia

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

  Lech Walesa

  Rights, Effort, Hatred

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• Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

  Guy Debord

  Love, Funny, Humorous

  "Yes, too many of us are in pointless jobs - but don't despair" by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2015.

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• Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

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• I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God, I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

  Nichelle Nichols

  Blessed, Careers, Knowing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid?

  Annie Dillard

  World, Not Afraid, Betray

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.102, Canongate Books

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• As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.

  Chaim Potok

  Life, Silly, Expression

  Chaim Potok (2000). “The chosen with related readings”

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• No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.

  Chaim Potok

  World, Way, Unfortunate

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.

  Anna Friel

  Different, Roles, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our relationship couldn't continue to balance, as it did, on the point of a knife. We would fall off one edge or the other, depending entirely upon his decision, or his instincts. My decision was made, made before I'd ever consciously chosen, and I was committed to seeing it through. Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. It was an impossibility.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fall, Knives, Decision

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• A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

  Solomon

  Character, Names, Riches

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• Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Life, Two, Evil

  Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

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  If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Differences

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• While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die

  Peter McWilliams

  Goal, Purpose, Rehabilitation

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should be very truthful, honest, and reasonable. One's actions should be good for others, and for oneself as well. Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Regret, Adversity

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.56, Penguin Books India

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• The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

  Hannah Arendt

  Mean, Men, Desire

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Book

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