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• Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

  Alberto Manguel

  Library, Exclusion, Preference

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• In midmost of the stream, embraced in the weir's shimmering arm-spread, a small island lay anchored, fringed close with willow and silver birch and alder. Reserved, shy, but full of significance, it hid whatever it might hold behind a veil, keeping it till the hour should come, and, with the hour, those who were called and chosen.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Islands, Shy, Veils

  Kenneth Grahame, Seth Lerer (2009). “The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition”, p.155, Harvard University Press

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• Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Civilization, Enemy

  President Bush Delivers Remarks on the War on Terror, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2006.

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• The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently yield to the desire to take a celebrated lover from a rival - even from a friend. This emotion is a complex one, mad up of vanity, respect for another woman's taste, and the need to establish self-assurance by winning a difficult victory. Don Juan chose his first mistresses; later he was chosen.

  Andre Maurois

  Wise, Winning, Men

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.

  Margaret Mead

  Philosophy, Giving, Choices

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• I say, of the Congress, then, this - that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their accomplishment is not a spirit of sincerity and whole-heartedness, and that the methods it has chosen are not the right methods, and the leaders in whom it trusts, not the right sort of men to be leaders; - in brief, that we are at present the blind led, if not by the blind, at any rate by the one-eyed.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Leader, Spirit

  "New Lamps for Old". Nine articles by Sri Aurobindo in the "Indu Prakash" (a Bombay daily newspaper), August 28, 1893.

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• Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man.

  Owen Feltham

  Wall, Humble, Humility

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• If I have taken the word, by any reason, it has been because I think it is grave to kill men, under the pretext that they are mistaken on the interpretation of some point, for we know that even the chosen ones are not exempt from sometimes being wrong.

  Michael Servetus

  Taken, Men, Thinking

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• The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.

  Maimonides

  Passion, Men, Ideas

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.426, Aeterna Press

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• Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Civilization, People, Wells

  "The conscience of South Africa talks about her country's new racial order". Interview with Dwight Garner for "Salon", 1998.

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• My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.

  Mordecai Richler

  Sweet, Spring, Self

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• a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful - what else could explain the fact that they themselves have been at the exact center of all they've experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives? - and that they can and will make a difference in their chosen field simply by the fact of their unique and central presence to it...

  David Foster Wallace

  Meaningful, Running, Unique

  "Oblivion: Stories (Mister Squishy)". Book by David Foster Wallace, June 8, 2004.

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• There are people who say that "Gül can't be my president". These people don't have good manners for and they should renounce their Turkish citizenship foremost this man will be chosen democratically by the people.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Men, People, Good Man

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• There is no other course but the one we have chosen, except the course of humiliation and darkness, after which there will be no bright sign in the sky or brilliant light on earth? All this will make us more patient and steadfast, and better prepared for the battle which God blesses and which good men support. Then there will only be a glorious conclusion, where a brilliant sun will clear the dust of battle, and where the clouds of battles will be dispelled.

  Saddam Hussein

  Men, Clouds, Light

  1991 Baghdad radio broadcast, 21 Feb.

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• When the Jew says "mankind" he is talking about himself. It is written in the Talmud, that only Jews were human beings, gentiles on the other hand were animals created to serve the chosen people. If looking back and comparing the corresponding articles in the "democratic" and "neutral" countries, one is astonished at the systematic nature of the propaganda whose final goal was the creation of a state of affairs in which a war was inevitable.

  Julius Streicher

  Country, War, Animal

  "Der Stürmer" Newspaper, September 5, 1940.

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• I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Men, Race, Long

  Epitaph on his grave in Lancaster, Pensylvania,

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• Also, the Federal Advisory Committee should be enlarged and reorganized. Members should be chosen for the broadest possible representation of the public interest, their main qualification: ability.

  Wright Patman

  Politics, Economy, Members

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• I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

  Bernard Kouchner

  Unhappy, Firsts, Unhappiness

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• I can read books and news articles about people who have excelled, people who have done extremely well in their chosen field, or made a lot of money, or married well, or what have you. When some people read this stuff, they get inspired, but when I read it, it makes me feel worse. Sometimes I wish I had never learned to read.

  John S. Hall

  Book, People, Wish

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• When adults come together to form an intimate relationship, each person releases into it unresolved issues from their trans-generational pool of unconscious fantasies. Partners are often chosen to actualize certain potentialities for each other, and the unborn baby becomes party to their drama.

  Joan Raphael-Leff

  Baby, Drama, Party

  Joan Raphael-Leff (2001). “Pregnancy: The Inside Story”, p.10, Karnac Books

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• In the silence
  that is his chosen medium
  of communication and telling
  others about it
  in words. Is there no way
  not to be the sport
  of reason?

  R. S. Thomas

  Sports, Communication, Silence

  "Between Here and Now" by R. S. Thomas, ("The New Mariner", p. 99), 1981.

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• We live in a world where people don't all have the same scruples, where all blows can be given, and where, in order to down somebody, all means can be used. Nothing will lead me astray from the path that I have chosen.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Mean, Blow, Order

  Le Monde, 2005.

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• Okay, look at it this way: if the evening news has a very high probability of being accurate, then it's highly improbable that they would inaccurately report the numbers chosen in the lottery. That counterbalances any improbability in the choosing of those numbers, so you're quite rational to believe in this highly improbable event.

  William Lane Craig

  Believe, Numbers, Events

  "The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity". Book by Lee Strobel, 2000.

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• Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.

  Gene Sharp

  Military, Mean, Power

  "The Politics of Nonviolent Action". Book by Gene Sharp, 1973.

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• Northleaf is delighted to have been chosen to manage the new fund. We look forward to implementing the fund's long-term strategy of constructing a portfolio of high-potential venture capital funds with the scale and resources to execute their plans, support successful high-growth companies and deliver world-class returns.

  Jeff Pentland

  Successful, Class, Long

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