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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
decisions lack leadership
We lack experience. We don't have the leadership to make the right decisions at the right times. Amber Magner
hands voice storm
I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to leave it in a better state than it was when I found it. At the same time I know that this can never be. The world has grown so complex that one voice can do little to alter it any longer. That doesn't stop me from doing what I can, but it makes the task hard. The successes are so small, the failures so large and many. It's like trying to stem a storm with one's bare hands. Charles de Lint
hands world ifs
if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right. Charles Dickens
hands feelings excess
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived. Charles Caleb Colton
hands class two
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
hands sorrow tears
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!
hands feet office
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
hands library grew
I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. Charles Stross
hands soul half
I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Charles Spurgeon
hands despair rope
Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
members undead
You stole from a member of the undead Darren Shan
members nations united
All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.
members officials original together tribe university wonder
University officials and tribe members are working together on the appeal. We were heartened by (Tuesday's) news, and we think it's the right decision. Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place. Steve Smith
members sexiest placebo
Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo Brian Molko
members primary protect staff student students
The primary consideration was to protect the student himself, and protect the students around him, as well as the staff members that were there.
members soon took union
When UTC took over there were 900 employees. Now there's 500 union members and soon it will be down to 350.
members money services
There are no limos in the garage. Any money AARP makes will get plowed back into the services our members want.
members sudden worked
Frankly, I don't think they've worked members very much, and then all of the sudden we get an ultimatum. It just doesn't feel to me like there's been enough groundwork done. Marty Brown
members supportive
I think a lot of members will be supportive of the legislation.
money luxury imagination
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. Charlie Chaplin
money world absolutes
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you. Charles Dudley Warner
money war military
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War) Charles de Gaulle
money giving grace
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
money evil gains
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
money greatest-wealth want
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
money battle half
economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.
money people saving
So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.
money thinking people
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
spent until
I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80. Ernest Cline
spent week
We've spent the whole week working on defense. Everything we've been doing has been working on defense.
spent tent time
We've spent more time at the tent than at the games.
spent time works
We've spent a lot of time together. If it works out, it would be great. E. O. Wilson
spent
We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different. George Chapman
spent trying
What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings. Jay Weatherill
spent
If we wouldn't have done anything, we would have spent more. Terry Jenkins
spent time
A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place. King Krule
spent women
Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly. George Raft