![Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.](/assets/img/quote-photos/two-types-of-choices-seem-to-me-to-have-been-crucial-in-tipping-the-outcomes-of.jpg)
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reflection degrees our-thoughts
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed. William Whewell
reflection views people
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view? William Shatner
reflection pope instinct
The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes. William James
reflection people trying
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives Tracy Kidder
reflection artist years
Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante? Robert Schumann
reflection reality mirrors
Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph. Vincent Van Gogh
reflection thinking self
I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. Werner Herzog
reflection yield evil
Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off. Samuel Richardson
reflection mind language
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
two emotion fear-of-love
There are only two emotions. Love and fear.... Love and fear is all there is == Everything else is just an offshoot motivated by those two. Carl Jung
two vaccines different
Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done. Anthony Fauci
two adverse-effects littles
We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless. Robert Crippen
two romance tape
But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies. Rob Sheffield
two way directors
No two directors make the same film the same way. Rob Cohen
two trying gears
You can get the oldest drum machine out and whack out four sounds like a kick, snare, and two types of high-hat, and try and come up with the freshest thing on the spot. The gear can guide you - you can choose one bit of gear and it's obviously got its restrictions and its limitations, but at the same time, you've got to exploit what it's capable of and what it's best used for. Rob Brown
two safety people
Marriage is for committed lovers, not hostages. Marriage is a sacred relationship created for two people who complete each other spiritually. While it requires sacrificial service, it is not a call to martyrdom. In many cases of domestic violence, a therapeutic separation is necessary to gain safety and direct attention to the gravity of the need for change. Rob Jackson
two people personality
If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd. Richard Petty
two numbers four
You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron." Richard P. Feynman
longest race
I think it is the most challenging race in the city. This year, it is the longest competitive race in the city.
longtime
He just had a longtime want to be in the military.
longer seems
He seems to be real comfortable with the system. He seems like he's been doing it longer than two years. He seems like he's made strides.
longer scope sheer size
I think what makes this one different is just the sheer scope and size of it. It's just going to be a much, much longer haul.
longer
It is no longer a possibility or an option. Alberto Fujimori
longer people
People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard. Matisyahu
long trials overcoming
Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals. Richard Whately
long feelings needs
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long firsts first-time
How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.