Chosen Quotes
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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
Francis Bacon
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I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.
Tahar Rahim
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Just as He had done with David, Samuel, and Joseph of the Old Testament, God took an innocent, unlearned boy, one still unsullied by the world and pliable to His divine will, and molded and shaped him into His chosen prophet.
M. Russell Ballard
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Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.
Thomas Sowell
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Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.
John Tillotson
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Thank heavens when the first single Bye Bye came off this album work started to pick up, then I'm Alright has taken us across the world. Radio has been very good, it has chosen to be kind to us.
Jo Dee Messina
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He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.
William Godwin
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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets.
Vladimir Nabokov
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North American newspapers are entering into commercial printing in a way that is somewhat different from taking in traditional commercial jobs: they are subcontracting to print other newspapers that have chosen not to upgrade their print capabilities. This is creating a profit-centre environment at many newspapers, both those that contract out and those that contract in requiring added capacity and more colour at the newspaper taking the contract.
Eric Bell
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Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being - not a constant state - that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden.
Vladimir Nabokov
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It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.
Stephen Covey
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We ultimately decided that that what we had chosen as a possibility didn't really work for us.
Ossie Davis