CHOICES
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Globalization has not only lost its
promise but is embittering many. The forces
representing human solidarity and community
have no choice but to step in quickly to convince
the disenchanted masses that, as the banner
of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre proclaims,
'Another world is possible!'
-- Dr.Walden Bello
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Destiny
is no 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.
- William Jennings Bryan
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You
and I are essentially infinite choice-makers.
In every moment of our existence, we are in
that field of all possibilities where we have
access to an infinity of choices.
-- Deepak Chopra
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"Democracy is just a word. You have
to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy.
Most Americans do not vote. We haven't had a real
choice for a long, long time now. Wealth rules.
Corporations rule. The US is a plutocracy -- government
by wealthy people. Certain people control multinational
corporations. You couldn't get elected in the
US without lots of money."
-- Ramsey Clark
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…So, take what's inside you and make big, bold
choices. And for those who can't speak for themselves,
use bold voices. And make friends and love well,
bring art to this place. And make this world
better for the whole human race.
-- Jamie Lee
Curtis
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I think the only choice that will enable us
to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons
the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept
familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming
behavior that is oppressive
-- Barbara Deming
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"The world no longer has a choice between force
and law; if civilization is to survive, it must
choose the rule of law."
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
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history of free men is never really written
by chance but by choice; their choice!
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
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Every mind must make its choice between truth
and repose. It cannot have both.
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The
self is not something ready-made, but something
in continuous formation through choice of action.
-- John Dewey
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I
said on the equality side of it, that it is
essential to a woman's equality with man that
she be the decision-maker, that her choice be
controlling.
-- Ruth Bader
Ginsburg
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There
is a point at which everything becomes simple
and there is no longer any question of choice,
because all you have staked will be lost if
you look back. Life's point of no return.
-- Dag
Hammarskjöld
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...convince
all nuclear powers, including those which have
been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity
to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples
and to become fully aware of the profound truth
of the following conclusion which the United
Nations approved by unanimity four years ago:
"Mankind is confronted with a choice: we must
halt the arms race and proceed to disarmament
or face annihilation".
~ Alfonso García
Robles
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We
are moving from unconscious evolution through
natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.
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I've realized that being happy is a choice.
You never want to rub anybody the wrong way
or not be fun to be around, but you have to
be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust
my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.
~ Angelina Jolie
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Our
goal is to empower as many people as possible
to take simple, effective actions in their daily
lives that will make the world a more just and
sustainable place.
-- Ellis
Jones
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We all have choices. We can build walls or we
can build bridges. We can give our talents to
creating weapons of annihilation, as so many
scientists have done, or we can work to find
solutions to humanities greatest problems. Our
orientation is found not only in our acts, but
also in the policies we support or oppose.
-- David Krieger
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"What
an extraordinary time to be alive. We’re the
first people on our planet to have real choice:
we can continue killing each other, wiping out
other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every
continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging.
It is re-knitting community and our ties to
the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose
death; or we can choose life."
-- Frances Moore
Lappé
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Making
conscious choices about what we eat, based on
what the earth can sustain and what our bodies
need, can help remind us that our whole society
must begin to balance sustainable production
with human need.
-- Frances Moore
Lappé
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We
must comprehend in each of our hearts and minds
the two ways we human beings are free to follow,
as we choose: the good way, the spiritual way
- or the un-natural way, the material way. It’s
our personal choice, our personal decision -
each of ours and all of ours.
-- Chief
Arvol Lookinghorse
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"When
you come to the fork in your life path, stop,
take in the landscape and check in with your
heart. Take the path with heart."
-- Lynne Namka
(AngriesOut.com)
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"When
you come to the fork in your life path, stop,
take in the landscape and check in with your
heart. Take the path with heart."
-- Lynne Namka
(AngriesOut.com)
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We could dramatically accelerate innovations
in sustainability and social justice just by
making choices to use our money for positive
solutions.
-- Carol Newell
I
think those of us who have extraordinary wealth
have an opportunity to leverage that wealth
to stimulate a just and sustainable economy.
I know it goes against the grain but I know
it's possible. It's just about deciding what
kind of choices we want to make.
-- Carol Newell
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The
choice, however, is as clear now for nations
as it was once for the individual: peace or
extinction.
- Lester
B. Pearson
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"What we are living with is the result of human
choices and it can be changed by making better,
wiser choices."
-- Robert Redford
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"Every
artist, every scientist, must decide now where
he stands. He has no alternative. There is no
standing above the conflict on Olympian heights.
There are no impartial observers. Through the
destruction, in certain countries, of the greatest
of man's literary heritage, through the propagation
of false ideas of racial and national superiority,
the artist, the scientist, the writer is challenged.
The struggle invades the formerly cloistered
halls of our universities and other seats of
learning. The battlefront is everywhere. There
is no sheltered rear." And I saw, too, that
the struggle for Negro rights was an inseparable
part of the anti-fascist struggle and I said:
"The artist must elect to fight for Freedom
or for Slavery. I have made my choice. I had
no alternative."
-- Paul Robeson
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Tolerance,
respect and patience are acquired skills, they
are learned attributes, practiced choices, and
until our children begin to study, learn and
practice peace, I believe this is as good as
it gets.
-- Debbie Robins
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Democracy
cannot succeed unless those who express their
choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real
safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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Look
at situations as contingent, not as inevitable,
look at them as the result of a series of historical
choices made by men and women, as facts of society
made by human beings, and not as natural or god-given,
therefore unchangeable, permanent, irreversible.
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if
you can just see all the children of the world
as your own, all the mothers of the world as
you are, we can make a huge difference.
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"If you walk down the street and see someone
in a box, you have a choice. That person is
either the other and you're fearful of them,
or that person is an extension of your family."
-- Susan Sarandon
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It
isn't until we consciously stop and examine
our lives that we realize there are many choices
that we can make that will help to create a
better world. Every choice makes a difference,
no matter how small or insignificant it might
seem at the time. The conscious effort to make
a better world will open up more opportunities,
and make it easier to make the right choices.
--
Robert Alan Silverstein
A
'better world lifestyle' is taking the opportunity
to create a better world in the many "choices"
that we make each and every day.
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Robert Alan Silverstein
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Peace
is an attitude and a choice we make. For there
ever to be peace on earth, peace must become
a viable option for people to choose to work
out their problems; peace must be the accepted
and preferred option.
-- Robert Alan
Silverstein
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...you can make little choices that can change
the world to be a better, happier, lovelier
place every day
-- Alicia
Silverstone
"My
life has become about trying to find effective
ways to be as responsible with the choices I
make -- in food, clothing and everything else.
I don't want to be responsible for the harm
of any creature, person or animal."
-- Alicia
Silverstone
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“Our
personal consumer choices have ecological, social,
and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine
some of our deeply held notions that underlie
our lifestyles.”
-- David Suzuki
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A
life lived of choice is a life of conscious
action. A life lived of chance is a life of
unconscious creation.
~ Neale Donald
Walsch
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