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decision our-actions regression
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide Alan Watts
decision understanding manipulation
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making Alan Greenspan
decision looking-forward life-is
Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment? Al Pacino
decision further law matter personal privileges prompt serious thank
We want to thank the secretary-general for his personal and very prompt decision to waive privileges and immunities, ... This is now a serious law enforcement matter and we will have no further comment. John Bolton
decision explained therefore understood
We want to take a decision that is part of a solution, not part of a problem, and therefore it has to be well explained and understood by everybody. Javier Solana
decisions early
We want to set the roster as early as we can. This year, the decisions are so few. Mark Shapiro
decisions-we-make splits life-is
Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds. Chris Cleave
decision mind world
Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind. Chris Colfer
decision may littles
There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making. David Allen
political appearance
Keep up appearances whatever you do. Charles Dickens
political preparation political-life
Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.
political liquid kind
If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in. Alan Moore
political groups social
If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
political campaigns maps
Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end. Chris Christie
political judgment operations
If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.
political way platforms
I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way. Chiranjeevi
political thinker
I'm not a great deep political thinker. David Mitchell
political influence economic
Economic and political structures that have a far sweeping impact on the lives of billions is not outside the purview of the gospel's redemptive influence. David Kim
gentleman
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
gentleman cost pedants
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further acquirements. Charles Caleb Colton
gentleman knaves wealth
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
gentleman deception fiction
"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."
gentleman sometimes
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
gentleman kind
He's no kind of gentleman. That's all right. I'm no kind of lady. Caitlin Kittredge
gentleman principles looks
Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles. Caleb Cushing
gentleman may venture
If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman ... Catherine the Great
gentleman profanity swearing
When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths. William Shakespeare