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  1. Jeanne DuPrau _ The People of Sparks

    Can't it be stopped?" said Lina. She shifted around under her blanket, trying to find a place to sit where rocks weren't digging into her.Maybe it can be stopped at the beginning," Maddy said. "If someone sees what's happening and is brave enough to reverse the direction."Reverse the direction?"Yes, turn it around."How would you do that?"You'd do something good," said Maddy. "Or at least you'd keep yourself from doing something bad."But how could you?" said Lina. "When people have been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?"You wouldn't want to," said Maddy. "That's what makes it hard. you do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.
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  2. J.K. Rowling _ Harry Potter and the Deathly

    Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.
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  3. J.K. Rowling _ Harry Potter and the Deathly

    He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.
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  4. J.K. Rowling _ The Casual Vacancy

    Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.
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  5. Jared Diamond _ Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution

    Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices."
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  6. Napoleon Hill _ Think and Grow Rich: The

    Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.
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  7. Nora Roberts _ Heaven and Earth

    I know what it is to be pushed in a direction you don't want to go, or one you're not ready for. People say they know what's best for you. Maybe sometimes it's true. But it doesn't matter if they keep pushing until they take your choices away.
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  8. J. Courtney Sullivan _ Saints for All Occasions

    Nothing had just happened to her, she had made a choice, and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life.
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  9. J. Courtney Sullivan _ Saints for All Occasions

    One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything."
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  10. Mark Helprin _ Freddy and Fredericka

    I was brought up,' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.
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  11. Rebecca Goldstein _ Plato at the Googleplex: Why

    I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I become a little bit more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the making, with each morally valenced action, whether right or wrong, affecting our characters, the people who we are.
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  12. George Eliot _ The Mill on the Floss

    It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite.
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