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• A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

  Plato

  Topics in Decision

• In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

  Bobby Scott

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  Tags in United States

• It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don’t work that way. There was a temptation in the early ’70s to reconsider. I decided against it.

  Bob Newhart

  Topics in Decision, Work

• Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Autonomy

• I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

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  Tags in Self

• They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn’t understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.

  George Woodcock

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  Tags in Scientists

• Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

  Solange Knowles

  Topics in Decision

• What’s called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

  Elia Kazan

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  Tags in Difficult

• Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

  George W. Bush

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  Tags in Nation, Terrorists

• The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

  George S. Patton

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Yourself, Importance

• The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.

  Edwin Meese

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Astonishing

• We want to support our troops because they didn’t make the decision to go there… but I don’t think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.

  Edward Kennedy

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  Tags in Administration

• Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.

  Christopher Dodd

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Correct, Wrong, Deserve

• People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

  Edmund Hillary

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  Tags in People

• And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn’t necessarily given to me, and that people didn’t necessarily think that I would be able to do.

  Charlize Theron

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Doing, Career

• I don’t condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You’re the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision.

  Cicely Tyson

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  Tags in Someone, Actress

• Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one’s own tooth.

  Gene Fowler

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  Tags in Lifetime

• Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.

  Corliss Lamont

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  Tags in Feeling, Decide

• First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I’d just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.

  Paris Hilton

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Want

• In the final analysis there is no other solution to man’s progress but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decision, the day’s generous utterances, and the day’s good deed.

  Clare Boothe Luce

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  Tags in Honest