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• Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

  Joseph Addison

  Sight, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.480

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• I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.

  Iggy Azalea

  Artist, Men, Stylist

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

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• We did not happen to be--we were chosen by God to exist.

  Mother Angelica

  Happens, Chosen By God

  Mother Angelica (2017). “Mother Angelica on Prayer: And Living for the Kingdom”, p.287, EWTN Publications, Inc.

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• Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Communication, Dark, Light

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Fire, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.227, Xist Publishing

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• Praise causes the presence of the Lord to come into our midst. Even though God is omniscient, He manifests His authority and rule in our environment when we praise Him. When we praise, God comes in and leads us forth... He does not just visit us, but He abides and aligns Himself with us to walk with us into the path that He has chosen for us.

  Chuck Pierce

  Doe, Path, Causes

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• Nobody knows but you what it is that’s sacred to you as far as what you want to manifest in your life. You need to do it by your own chosen standards. Your life does not need to look like anybody else’s life. It’s a commitment that you’re making to a magnificent life measured by your own chosen standards.

  Gay Hendricks

  Commitment, Doe, Needs

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• It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.

  Eric Hoffer

  Running, Light, Perspective

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.

  John Dewey

  Essence, Discipline, Confusion

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.98, 谷月社

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• But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Gambling, Sweat

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.221, Pan Macmillan

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• For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.

  William Ralph Inge

  Animal, Men, Self

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• I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Able, Comfort, Female

  Samuel Johnson (1850). “The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, a tale”, p.33

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• The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Party, Views, Two

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.348, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

  Joseph Campbell

  Mean, Names, People

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.130, Anchor

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• The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of group arrogance, especially when the good news was first reported by Jews. However, the choice was interpreted not as tribute to superior virtue but as divine challenge.

  Israel Shenker

  People, Choices, Challenges

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• If my Catholic boyfriend and I ever have a kid, we'll just be honest with it. We'll say that Mommy is one of God's chosen people, and Daddy believes that Jesus is magic!

  Sarah Silverman

  Jesus, Believe, Kids

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• What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of number." With a bit of prodding as to what kind of study they mean, you may be able to induce them to come up with the description "the science of numbers." But that is about as far as you will get. And with that you will have obtained a description of mathematics that ceased to be accurate some two and a half thousand years ago!

  Keith Devlin

  Mean, Years, Two

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• Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hero, Men, Perfect

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

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• The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In the canvases that followed, the colours were chosen arbitrarily and drawn by chance. Then, 180 tones were mixed according to a given system and drawn by chance to make four variations of 180 tones. But after that the number 180 seemed too arbitrary to me, so I developed a system based on a number of rigorously defined tones and proportions.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Numbers, Arbitrary

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• It's hard to carry a child around with you, but fortunately, in most cases, you don't have to ask a child for directions if you have a well-chosen role model ready to guide you. This is the next prescription: Take one role model, as often as needed. Set aside a few minutes today to fill this prescription so you will have it handy when you need it. Think now about who your role models have been. What do they offer? Who else do you admire, and exactly what do you admire about them? Have your roster of role models ready and waiting to help you the next time you are perplexed.

  Bernie Siegel

  Children, Thinking, Role Models

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• Perhaps I should have pointed out more often that without her (mother's) guidance and example I might have gone straight from short pants to Long Bay Gaol, which in those days was still in use and heavily populated by larcenous young men who had chosen their parents less wisely.

  Clive James

  Funny, Mother, Humorous

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.150, Pan Macmillan

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• Children, set aside at least half an hour in the morning and in the evening for spiritual practices. After bathing in the morning, a family should sit together and worship. Archana may be performed by chanting the 108 or 1000 Names of Devi or our chosen deity. We can also chant our mantra, meditate or sing hymns at this time.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Morning, Children

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• While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Food, Practice

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• We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have sought its acquaintance wherever we could find it. And in this growing intimacy we have become increasingly impressed with the influence that this and other infectious diseases, which span - in their protoplasmic continuities - the entire history of mankind, have had upon the fates of men.

  Hans Zinsser

  Writing, Fate, Men

  Hans Zinsser (2011). “Rats, Lice and History”, p.6, Transaction Publishers

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• Sure, you're an intelligent and highly capable individual, and you are learning a lot on the fly as you build your company. But you also need to come to terms with the fact that there are things you have chosen not to be an expert in.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Intelligent, Experts, Needs

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