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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.

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.

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

Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.

Preferment goes by letter and affection.

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

When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.

Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions.

When you make an efficient choice in moments of indecision, you establish more effectiveness within a given time span, saving energy and stress. That's a time shift. William Jennings Bryan Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -Doc Childre.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.

Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.

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

How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends. -Doc Childre.

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

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. -Joan Baez.

The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. -Victor Frank.

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.