A Quote by Bret Weinstein

There's a very big difference between people deciding to absent themselves from a shared space in order to make a point, which I support, and people deciding to absent somebody else, which I'm absolutely opposed to.

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And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.

Robyn

Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

Heloise

If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which man she'll spend her life with? I've read that story a million times, but a stepmother deciding which of her children she'll save in a freak accident? Now that's a challenge.

Jillian Medoff

We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved,) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Thomas Jefferson

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.

George Soros

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

Saul Bellow

The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy.

Jonathan Majors

My faith is central to who I am as a human being, not just as an actor - so it informs every decision I make, whether it's deciding on a project or deciding on how to treat the guy who cuts me off in traffic.

Neal McDonough

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

N. T. Wright

There's a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.

L. Neil Smith

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

Earl Nightingale

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.

Jhumpa Lahiri

The fine art of executive decision consists in not deciding questions that are not now pertinent, in not deciding prematurely, in not making decision that cannot be made effective, and in not making decisions that others should make.

Chester Barnard

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

Jane Asher

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