Choice

Alternative, decision, dilemma

QUOTES

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
Mario Puzo
The Godfather, 1969

To be or not to be: that is the question.
William Shakespeare
Hamlet, 1601

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
Joan Didion
Run River, 1963

If it has to choose who will be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
Jean Cocteau
Le Rappel a la Ordre, 1926

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken, 1916

See Also Risk

References

History

Caesar crossing the Rubicon

Presidential nominees choosing their running mates

Supreme Court decisions, which always involve choice between competing Constitutional principles

Arts & Science

The study of Logic

Invention of the binary system by Pingala and/or Liebniz

Literature

Hobson's Choice

horns of a dilemma

William Styron: Sophie's Choice

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