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• For scientists, reality is not optional.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Reality, Scientist

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.229, Faber & Faber

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• Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.

  Heather Brewer

  Growing Up, Growing, Growing Older

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• Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.

  Susan Cain

  Love, Essentials, Introvert

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.264, Broadway Books

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• Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect. Scan new acquaintances for those who might fall into the former categories or whose company you enjoy for its own sake. And don't worry about socializing with everyone else. Relationships make everyone happier, introverts included, but think quality over quantity.

  Susan Cain

  Fall, Love Is, Thinking

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• Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection.

  Brené Brown

  Emotional, Choices, Risk

  "Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead". Book by Brené Brown, September 11, 2012.

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• Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Positive, Success

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• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

  Chili Davis

  Love, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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• The Church is the Church in her worship. Worship is not an optional extra, but is of the very life and essence of the Church. ...Man is never more truly man than when he worships God. He rises to all the heights of human dignity when he worships God, and all God's purpose in Creation and in Redemption are fulfilled in us as together in worship we are renewed in and through Christ, and in the name of Christ we glorify God.

  J. B. Torrance

  Men, Essence, Names

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• Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

  Ed Viesturs

  Sports, Nature, Travel

  Ed Viesturs, David Roberts (2011). “The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak”, p.87, Crown

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• The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.

  John Stuart Mill

  Truth, Character, Science

  John Stuart Mill “Principles of Political Economy: Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical and Explanatory Notes and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy”, Library of Alexandria

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• [Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, People, Christ

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• Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.

  Eileen Wilks

  Bleeding

  Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.24, Penguin

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• Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Punishment, Desire, Fierce

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Giving, Justice

  Peter Singer (2010). “The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• [Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh grade we have a girl named Electricity, a guy named Magic Bus, and countless flowers: Tulip, Begonia, and Poppy - all parent-given-on-the-birth-certificate names. Tulip is a two-ton bruiser of a guy who would be the star of out football team if we were the kind of school that has optional morning meditation in the gym

  Jandy Nelson

  Girl, Mom, Football

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• The emperor is naked!" The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: "No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!

  James Finn Garner

  Thinking, Naked, Crowds

  James Finn Garner (1994). “Politically Correct Bedtime Stories”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Reading is not optional.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Reading

  Walter Dean Myers (2013). “Tags”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Hurt, Pain

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 10, 2014

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• Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy.  Undeniably, art is not optional.

  Nathan Sawaya

  Art, People, Understanding

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• Losses are inevitable, but excuses are optional.

  John C. Maxwell

  Loss, Winning, Excuse

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• Change isn't optional, and creation isn't something that happened a long time ago and then ended. It's ongoing, and we are invited to be a part of it. The question for us is 'what will we create in this new day?' How will we make it count? How will we nourish the things that matter, and stand in the way of injustice in the small ways that add up to the arc of history? You are invited to participate in the creation of this day.

  David LaMotte

  Change, Creativity, New Day

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• Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Opposites, Transformation, Nonsense

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

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• After 9-11, the President had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead, by exploiting the politics of fear, instigating an optional war in Iraq before finishing a necessary war in Afghanistan and instituting policies on torture, detainees and domestic surveillance that fly in the face of our values and interests, President Bush divided Americans from each other and from the world.

  Joe Biden

  War, Opportunity, Iraq

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• Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Art, Creativity, Survival

  "Ground Truthing". Interview with Devon Fredericksen, www.guernicamag.com. August 1, 2013.

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• In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.

  Mary Cunningham Agee

  Leadership, Jobs, Business

  Mary Cunningham, Mary Cunningham Agee, Fran Schumer (1984). “Powerplay: what really happened at Bendix”, Simon & Schuster

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