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Your Quotes for 18 October 2005 - Choice

One of yesterday's quotes from Arthur Miller got me to thinking about choice - the choices we make or refuse to make and how they shape our reality.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
     - Arnold Joseph Toynbee, 1889 - 1975

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
     - Ayn Rand, 1905 - 1982

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion, it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.
     - Ben Ames Williams

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
     - Thomas Merton, 1915 - 1968

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
     - John Kenneth Galbraith

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
     - Doug Larson

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