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• It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.

  C. L. R. James

  Taken, Years, Abolition Of Slavery

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• If you decided to reteach yourself your own loveliness today, what would you do? How would you speak to yourself? Can you allow yourself that much?

  Geneen Roth

  Today, Speak, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Jul 10, 2012

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• My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A's. I decided to get straight A's. I didn't want people to think I was dumb. And when you get straight A's once, its easier.

  Bill Gates

  Summer, Thinking, Average

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• My first experience with football was not very good because I didn't plan on playing football. I was just playing hookie one day and I was a sophomore and decided not to go to class. And the principal - normally he does his rounds and I thought I had him down pretty good where he was going to be - he sort of walked up behind me and scared me. He noticed I could run real fast. So that's how I got introduced to football.

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Running, Real

  "The Secrets To Jerry Rice’s Hall Of Fame Football Career Can Be Found In Crawford, Mississippi". Interview with Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• I did my first triathlon when I was 11-years-old and it was just another new sport to try. I got better at it and decided to take it a bit more seriously.

  Alistair Brownlee

  Sports, Years, Trying

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.

  Albert Camus

  Morning, Health, Smoking

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• They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn't know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.

  Jimmy Carter

  Race, Atlanta, Politics

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• I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.

  Karl Kraus

  Heads Or Tails, Style, Firsts

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

  C. Wright Mills

  Military, Power, Circles

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.18, Oxford University Press

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• I decided that I want to live the rest of my life happy with what I'm doing. So when I play tennis again, I have to play it for the right reason. I don't want to play to get my No. 1 ranking back. I don't want to play for the attention, or to earn more. I don't even want to play because the world wants to see me do it, even though it's nice to know that the world is interested. I only want to play because I love the game, which is the reason I began to play at age seven in the first place.

  Monica Seles

  Nice, Happy Life, Games

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• We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems, because every theorem that's proved is trivial.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mean, Science, Mathematics

  Richard P Feynman (2014). “Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton”, p.84, Random House

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• There is a decided bias against things Christian.

  Gary DeMar

  Christian, Religious, Bias

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• The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  College, Waiting, Forever

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• One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period.

  Christopher Hitchens

  United States, Cards, Unions

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's kind of interesting to experience that kind of a ride after well, essentially so many years of enjoying a career based on failures and then suddenly something clicks. The weird thing is, I never changed a thing. The process is still the process as it ever was. The fact that people decided to go and see a movie that I was in was probably the most shocking thing that I've ever been through.

  Johnny Depp

  Years, Careers, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I love it when I meet a woman who was poor as a child and maybe had an abusive family, and broke out and found the one and they're married with a very healthy home and children, and they've let go of regret and their past and decided to embrace their journey and what that stands for.

  Abbie Cornish

  Letting Go, Children, Regret

  Source: collider.com

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• Moments ago, the U.S. Senate decided to do the unthinkable about gun violence - nothing at all. Over two years ago, when I was shot point-blank in the head, the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. Four months ago, 20 first-graders lost their lives in a brutal attack on their school, and the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. It's clear to me that if members of the U.S. Senate refuse to change the laws to reduce gun violence, then we need to change the members of the U.S. Senate.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  School, Gun, Two

  "Obama: 'shameful' Senate killed off gun control amendment" by Jim Newell, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2013.

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• I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.

  Rosa Parks

  Rights, Citizens, Humans

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• One of the greatest things I've ever seen happen was the morning I opened the newspaper and it said that some very powerful government officials had decided to change the name of “french fries” to “freedoom fries” and “french toast” to “freedom toast”. It was impressive. I wanted to write a letter to them just to thank them, just for proving globally that they were absolute imbeciles.

  Johnny Depp

  Morning, Powerful, Writing

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

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• I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.

  Michael Bond

  Senior, Writing, Blue

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• Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.

  Mason Cooley

  Issues, People, Arguing

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• I think once you start as an announcer, you have to decide what kind of approach you're going to have. I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine. I think you just have to fit whatever kind of personality you have, and I think my nature was to be more down the middle and that's the way I conducted the broadcasts.

  Ernie Harwell

  Cheer, Team, Thinking

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• I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was I dont belong here. Then I said, Im here; lets get on with it.

  Jason Kilar

  Jobs, School, Months

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• When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the word "councelor of public relations".

  Edward Bernays

  War, Trying, United States

  "The Century of the Self". Documentary, 2002.

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• When Michelle and I decided that I would run for President, it was because of a shared belief in the power of community and connection, a commitment to the idea that we are our brothers' keepers.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Brother, Commitment

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