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Robert A Heinlein
: Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry. N.B.: Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!
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There are no extraordinary men...just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
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Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions
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We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.
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Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them.
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Werner von Blomberg :
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He became a willing tool in Hitler's hands for every one of his decisions.
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George Washington :
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Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. And with it, everything honorable and glorious.
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Omar Bradley :
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We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer :
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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.
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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
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Lillian Smith :
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Today is not such a tremendous day for us Rhodesians. We made our decision to become a Republic quite a long while ago, and this is simply the process of formalizing it. Our Independence Day is the great day. Rhodesia did not want to seize independence from Britain. It was forced upon us.
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Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
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Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win.
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A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
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An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
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When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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A motion to adjourn is always in order.
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