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"For many are called, but few are chosen." »Matthew 2214
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"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen." »Samuel Paterson
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"An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible." »William James
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"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others." »Andr Maurois
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"Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year." »John Adams
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"In case you never noticed, the path you never chose has chosen you." »Jason Mraz
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"Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it." »Maurice Chevalier
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"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." »Robert Frost
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"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer." »Robert Frost
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"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen." »Minor White
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"Serving God is doing good to man. But praying is thought an easier service and is therefore more generally chosen." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form." »Stephen Nachmanovitch
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"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." »Vince Lombardi
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"The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."" »Paxton Hood
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"A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation." »Howard Crosby
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"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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""Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language." »Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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"The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen." »George S. Arundale
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"The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. (Announcing blockade of Cuba)" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"A cat does not want all the world to love her -- only those she has chosen to love." »Helen Thomson
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"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten." »Euripides
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"Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new nickname for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname 'Fly Head'. Normally, you would think that 'Fly Head' would mean a person who had beautiful swept-back features, as if flying though the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean 'having a head like a fly' I'm afraid some people might actually think that." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"What is a minority The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world." »John B. Gough
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"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." »Henri Nouwen
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