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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
arbitrary rewards conformity
A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards. Bruce Tulgan
arbitrary cuba decision mission nations permanent protest state strongly united wishes
The permanent mission of Cuba to the United Nations wishes to protest strongly at the arbitrary decision and to state that it disagrees completely with the pretexts given. Kofi Annan
arbitrary taxes pernicious
The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary. David Hume
arbitrary collection lack pattern ridiculous seems
I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses. Leonard Susskind
arbitrary arrived brevity good
Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. Michael Winter
arbitrary dial exactly looking point saying
There are those that are saying you have to be able to dial back to any arbitrary point in time. From our discussions with the mid-market, that's not exactly something they are looking for.
arbitrary civilized seldom traits uncertain unless
Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest. Levi Woodbury
arbitrary date maximum needed sure tied
We're not going to be tied to an arbitrary date on the calendar. We haven't scheduled it yet. If it's needed we want to make sure it has maximum impact.
arbitrary deal design internet large networks number work
The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together. Vint Cerf