If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all.
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Related Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we... NEIL GAIMAN It's all about the choices we make as a society. We can choose to have poor schools and parks an... GINA RAIMONDO The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on m... RYAN LILLY How is Life Full of Choices? When we eat too much, we make a choice to be overweight. When we drink ... SHIV KHERA How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS It comes down to a choice for our players. If they choose to miss a practice because of something el... DAVE SICA Anyone who refuses to make a choice has already made a wrong choice by allowing his life for chance ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Given a choice between my life and yours, I will choose mine. Every time. Without hesitation. RAE CARSON 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice neverthele... TERRY PRATCHETT The only choice that we lack is the choice to choose. LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Taking responsibility gives us power and control, because when we recognize the relationship between... , JOINT CUSTODY WITH A JERK: RAISING A CHILD WITH AN UNCOOPERATIVE EX, 2011 Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL To be angry is to yield to the influence of Satan. No one can make us angry. It is our choice. If we... THOMAS S. MONSON We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou... JOSEPH EPSTEIN No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE Pain or perspective, that's the choice.' . . . You choose pain - you choose to fight it, ... TED DEKKER Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order... JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL You don’t become the person you wish to become; you become the person you choose to become. True l... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR My people sing, we dance, we love. That is our strength. But we also dig. And then we die. Seldom do... PIERCE BROWN There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Have no regrets in life because of the choices you make. Good or bad, they are a learning experience... JAMES HAUENSTEIN When the options are few, we can be happy with what we choose since we are confident that it is the ... SHEENA IYENGAR Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, an... BRANDON MULL If I had to make a choice between no advice and biased advice, I'd choose biased advice because I th... BARBARA ROPER How we treat people is always our choice, and if we choose not to be respectful, it can come back to... ALISON LEVINE A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD At some point in our lives we make a decision, he thought, a choice that, though we don't understand... ANTTI TUOMAINEN Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose w... MIRA GRANT And one day, as she was buried deep in her thoughts, she heard a still small voice ask her
"If you c... HENNA SOHAIL Our choice is to fight or to die. We will not surrender. AHMED SAADAT A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA Destruction is a man's will, Nevertheless Prevention is also a man's will, Its a man's cho... BABU RAJAN There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I ch... HALIMA ADEN When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose. JAROD KINTZ To choose not to choose is still a choice for which you alone are responsible. GARY COX Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that... SHEENA IYENGAR Some of us choose not to be rather created in this universe. You choose not to be created. But creat... EPHDAN The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our... TED KULONGOSKI When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste... CHETAN BHAGAT If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time. SOURCE UNKNOWN I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else... NATAN SHARANSKY The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of... ELIZABETH GILBERT We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you're about to make a choice that wi... MIRA GRANT If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice te... ELIZABETH GILBERT We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss. ISAIAH BERLIN I am condemned to freedom. I am not free because I can make choices, but because I must make them, a... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedd... BRENT WEEKS When you take the time to really know yourself—know your values, know your beliefs, know what is i... SURAJ DAHAL I love you because, there is no because. I choose to love you and will continue making that choice r... DEDRICK D. L. PITTER It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER At any given moment the choice to be happy is present- we just have to choose to be happy. STEVE MARABOLI Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We ha... SERAPHIM ROSE We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselv... DAVID MCRANEY Having placed himself on the level of the world for humans to choose between, God nevertheless stipu... MARK A. TIETJEN Having placed himself on the level of the world for humans to choose between, God nevertheless stipu... MARK A. TIETJEN Although the Bible is a living book, it will not jump into your palms pleading, "Read me please". Yo... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I don't know which pathway we will choose, until we get some legal review. But I assure you there wi... REP DENNIS BAXLEY The way into the hall of success always passes through the chamber of decision. Decide to be a succe... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The way to the hall of failure passes through the chamber of indecision. The way to the hall of succ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love. JOHNNY CASH Choose who to follow. You can't follow everyone that shows up SOTONYE ANGA Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs. LEONARDO DICAPRIO Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs... LEONARDO DICAPRIO Deciding not to choose is still making a choice. UNKNOWN We recognize people have a choice in selecting a lender and, year after year, homebuyers and homeown... CARA HEIDEN We recognize people have a choice in selecting a lender and, year after year, homebuyers and homeown... CARA HEIDEN We recognize people have a choice in selecting a lender and, year after year, homebuyers and homeown... CARA HEIDEN My choice is what I choose to do, And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you. BEN HARPER Love is a choice. You can choose to love or hurt but the consequences you suffer will always be base... KEMI SOGUNLE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Choice, choices, choices! Choose rightly. Choose the things that brings you highest fulfillment. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA He stares blankly, then leaves the room like a ghost—never truly here. I gaze at the doorway. I do... KATE ROOPER Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a... ROY T. BENNETT Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the c... ALFRED A. MONTAPERT Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the ... ALFRED A. MONTAPERT Life is what it is. We are not the ones who designed it, but we sure can color it in the hues that w... MARIE-SUZANNE LABELLE (A.K.A MARIE-SUE) Every choice comes with a consequence. Once you make a choice, you must accept responsibility. You c... ROY T. BENNETT If you decide not to choose then you've already made the wrong choice! UNKNOWN As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for ... JOHN DOOLITTLE What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of... ARCHIBALD MACLEISH The sort of people that we become is, in large part, determined by the voices that we choose to list... ADAM MCHUGH There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of e... HERBERT PROCHNOW “Our customers have a choice and they choose us; we owe them an exceptional service” KOMI AGBODJI We're not after a strike, but if the employers don't move, then we will have no other choice. ERICH KLEMM If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. NEIL PEART If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. NEIL PEART There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
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