Alternatives and particularly desirable alternatives grow only on imaginary trees.
Facts are stubborn things but statistics are more pliable.
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be what he will become in the next moment.
Marriage isn't for everyone, however if you find the right co-pilot it's a great way to travel through life
When you have to make a choice, think of the impact your decision may make on your calling
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We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.
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A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want peace or war and then to get ready for what you want for what we prepare for is what we shall get.
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.
It is better to arm and strengthen your hero than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations and the effect of decisiveness itself "makes things go" and creates confidence.
If you do everything you should do and do not do anything you should not do you will according to the best available statistics live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.
She knew in her heart that to be without optimism that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain was a fatal flaw the seed of death.
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.