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• We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families constitute the number one burden, the number one burden in this Nation on the school systems.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Jobs, Children

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.227, Best Books on

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• I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.

  Princess Margaret

  Christian, Teaching, Church

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

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• We've decided what we are. That's the dream. When the dream fades, it's not that we don't exist. How could we not exist since we never existed?

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Enlightenment, Fades

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• ...I see that White Light will only return to the planet when every human being recognizes every other human being as an individualized frequency of the White Light. As long as we keep eliminating or devaluing other human beings we have decided we don't like, ie., destroying frequencies of the spectrum, we will not be able to experience the White Light. Our job is to protect and nurture each human frequency so that the White Light can return.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Inspirational, Jobs, White

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• As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.

  Bob Gunton

  Father, School, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• This is a perfect example of the power and ridiculousness of a website like Wikipedia. I did give a slightly contentious graduation speech, where I decided not to be funny as my classmates had hoped, which was why I was chosen. I was not valedictorian, that's for sure. Instead, I talked about the failure to communicate between the administration and the teachers and students. That's what was contentious about it. At some point, somebody wrote about that incident on my Wikipedia page. And then somebody added the bit about me exposing my genitals to the crowd.

  Nick Kroll

  Teacher, Giving, Perfect

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it.

  Charlie Day

  Baseball, Teacher, Regret

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine with me.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Jobs, People, Directors

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

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• Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netters art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

  David Bolinsky

  Art, School, Illustration

  "Lives of a cell, the 3-D version". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. March 14, 1007.

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• The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Jesus, Father, Nice

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.776, Library of Alexandria

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• I started working out, doing a formal workout right around 1980. That's when I really decided I needed to get in shape and it may have been because you just start to see a decrease - a change in your body.

  Paul Stanley

  Workout, Work Out, Body

  "How KISS Frontman Paul Stanley Keeps Fit". Interview with Ben Radding, www.mensfitness.com.

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• You could try to believe what you wanted, but it never worked. Your brain and your heart decided what you were going to believe and that was that. Whether you liked it or not.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Believe, Heart, Brain

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our sky-godders, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that looney text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area.

  Gore Vidal

  Hate, Men, Sky

  "America First? America Last? America at Last?". Lowell Lecture, Harvard University, April 20, 1992.

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• I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.

  Billy Connolly

  Drinking, Ideas, Stills

  Quoted in Pamela Stephenson Billy (2001).

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• The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.

  John Lennon

  Ideas, Looks, Beats

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• My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.

  Stephen Leacock

  Parent, Canada

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• The angels decided to shine on me for a little while.

  Lana Del Rey

  Angel, Shine On, Shining

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2011.

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• There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it was important enough to me to keep doing it as art, I should do it with all my tools.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Art, Play, Important

  "Q&A with Kris Kristofferson". Interview with Andy Langer, www.esquire.com. February 27, 2006.

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• I was working in Camden Lock market from the age of 13 to 16, and people often suggested that I should be a model. I knew a girl working on a stall who was with Take Two model agency, so I decided to go along, and they took me on.

  Saffron Aldridge

  Girl, Agency, Two

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• I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star.

  Peter Sculthorpe

  Stars, Thinking, Wonder

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• Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too.

  Oliver Sacks

  Rivers, Smell, Lakes

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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• Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

  Immanuel Kant

  Blood, Punishment, Islands

  Immanuel Kant, Mary J. Gregor (1999). “Practical Philosophy”, p.474, Cambridge University Press

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• Most often, the reason something is "on your mind" is that you want it to be different than it currently is, and yet: you haven't clarified exactly what the intended outcomes is; you haven't decided what the very next physical action step is; and/or you haven't put reminders of the outcome and the action required in a system you trust. That's why it's on your mind.

  David Allen

  Mind, Different, Want

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.36, Penguin

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• You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

  Edwin Land

  Splits, Moments, Composition

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• I'm a comedian, and I decided I wanted to be a comedian when I was eight years old watching old Saturday Night Live episodes. I never decided to be a rapper because I'm not a rapper.

  Andy Samberg

  Night, Rapper, Eight

  "Rick Ross & Andy Samberg: Riding The Wavy Train". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. May 23, 2011.

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