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Decisions are made by those who show up.
Aaron Sorkinborn 1961Commencement speech at Syracuse University on May 13, 2012.
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
PSPublilius Syrus101–101 BCSentences, Maxim 469
- Change
When conflicted between two choices, take neither.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 71
To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Speech to the Conservative Party Conference, Brighton (10 October 1980)
- Politics
I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:
“All right, then, I’ll go to hell”
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XXXIIn context
- Morality
There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1769–1852Reply to William Huskisson, who said his letter offering to resign had been a mistake