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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

~Edmund Burke

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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.

~Edmund White

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So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: 'Tell me! Tell me!' The stories choose me.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Choose How Many Me Shoulder Speak Stories Tap Tell Them Which Will Words

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Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

~Edward Felten

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In all life, there are the people that are right for you, and there are the people that are wrong for you, and then there are the people that you just choose.

~Edward Kitsis

Topics: Choose Just Life People Right Then Wrong You

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Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass.

~Edward P. Jones

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Figuring out why people who choose not to do something don't in fact do it is like attempting to interview the elves who live inside your refrigerator but come out only when the light is off.

~Eileen Pollack

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Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

~Eknath Easwaran

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'Teen Vogue' fortunately has proved you can have smart, political, and fashionable content delivered in one place, and you don't have to choose.

~Elaine Welteroth

Topics: Choose Content Delivered Fashionable Fortunately Place Political Proved Smart Teen Vogue You

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Why isn't the movie industry forced to open its shooting locations to an organization that is there to advocate for animal actors? The industry isn't allowed to pick and choose which movies using young children it will or won't allow to be monitored. The vulnerable should be protected.

~Elayne Boosler

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