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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
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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
The
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.
~ Ralph
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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.
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard |
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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“But
regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer.
Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you
will never have the answer to.” -- Trevor Noah
“I
was wanted. Being chosen is the greatest gift you can give
to another human being.” -- Trevor Noah
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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.
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt |
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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.
--Edward
Said |
“Trust your gut. Keep your nose on the joy trail and avoid predators, because it’s all real and your choices last a long time.” -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
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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.
--
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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