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With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

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I'm a rather decisive type. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it. ↗

— Ann Richards

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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. ↗

— Georges Bataille

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Direct threats require decisive action. ↗

— Dick Cheney

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When men cut jobs, they're seen as decisive. When women do, they're vindictive. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

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My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions. ↗

— Andre Gide

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