We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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On the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, quoted by Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her closing remarksJohn Lewis
When London was chosen to host the 2012 Olympics, Gibson said that he regretted that Paris had not been chosen because it would have subjected that city to the threat of terrorism.
John Gibson
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Confucius
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.
Herbert Marcuse
We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people — the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
Herman Melville
It's not a comfortable thing, to be chosen so. I tried to avoid it for a long time, but God finds ways of dealing with draft dodgers.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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