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    I will not choose what many men desire,
    Because I will not jump with common spirits
    And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. -Nikos Kazantzakis.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. -Nikos Kazantzakis.

by Nikos Kazantzakis Found in: Choice Quotes,
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If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance! -Anonymous.

If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance! -Anonymous.

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Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.

by Charles Caleb Colton Found in: Choice Quotes,
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Which of them shall I take?
Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,
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Which of them shall I take?
Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,
If both remain alive. To take the widow
Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril;
And hardly shall I carry out my side,
Her husband being alive.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Choice Quotes,
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The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd read more

The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son and a father. -Lance Armstrong.

by Lance Armstrong Found in: Choice Quotes,
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Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
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Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th's first.

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If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,
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If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,
And I will look on both indifferently;
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honor more than I fear death.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Choice Quotes,
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Where passion leads or prudence points the way.

Where passion leads or prudence points the way.

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Between two stools one sits on the ground.
[Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]

Between two stools one sits on the ground.
[Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]

by Francois Rabelais Found in: Choice Quotes,
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