"If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives."

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Source : Kenneth Burke (2005). “Here & Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke”, p.146, David R. Godine Publisher

Kenneth Burke

#Choices Quotes #Decision Quotes #Alternatives Quotes

“Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.”
“People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.”
“Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.”
“Donâ€™t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.”
“arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
“Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.”

Source : "The godfather of urban soul". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2006.
“You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.”
“If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation.”

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