"Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die……" — Katherine Paterson

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• The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all… — Hannah Arendt
• Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever;… — J. J. Abrams
• Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that… — Neil Armstrong
• To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history,… — Charles Babbage
• There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn… — Richard Bach
• My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it. — Eric Bana
• To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and… — Dennis Banks
• Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of… — Roseanne Barr
• Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them,… — Karl Barth
• Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast… — Joseph Addison
• Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma. — John Berger
• Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. — John Berger

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