Upon the wisdom with which choices in marriage are now made depends in large degree the health and efficiency of all the individuals who will constitute society in the coming generations.
According to this definition nurture has to do with that period of our existence when we are not able wisely to make choices for ourselves.
With the years the choices become more rational and loving.
When we say that the process by which a man rises may be justified, we do not mean that all his choices are justifiable.
But with the growth of the soul choices are differentiated from impulses, and more and more regularly are inspired by intelligence and unselfish affection.
Many of our moral choices or judgments do not take the form of choice between right and wrong, or between duty and its opposite; they appear to be choices between goods.
It is folly to pretend that ourchoices are necessary.
Did we choose such actions, if we knew our choices to be the effect of invincible, supernal influence, they would give us no concern.
We have two definitechoices for a rug; it may be a greyed tone of red or wine color, or a greyed tone of yellow (beige or light brown).
Nevertheless, many salesmen in average stores can enhance their effectiveness and their service by helping their customers to avoid choices that do not seem to harmonize with their obvious personal characteristics.
The voter indicates his second choices, and any further choices he may care to indicate.
If no candidate receives a majority of first choices, the first and second choicesare added together; if necessary, the third choices.
At the very least, we are aware that the choices made on our behalf have the ability to shape our future reality and that these choices are not ordained but implemented by people just like us.
The compromise was a suggestion that when choosing between two disagreeable choices he preferred an unconventional relationship with Sang Huin to the weathering of belittling comments from the cousin.
The idea of being contrite and ingratiating myself to a child for adult choices that are never ideal is not my way of spending a day.
This commitment remains binding and choices are made based on devotion to this commitment.
A like difference is visible in thechoices of the daughters.
Through the occupational choices of our Danes, one can catch a glimpse of the lush meadows of Jutland.
The experience of the past, the heritage of knowledge that has come down to us, is so various and extensive that choices must be made.
The human being, born into a world where choices must be made, must make continual abnegation.
The historian in writing even a comprehensive history of a country must still make choices and omissions.
I longed for the day when I too would be able to own a house and make all the choices that were his.
The array of choices seemed endless, no preference was greeted with questioning eyes or poorly concealed mirth as often can be the case in a restaurant.
When a person makes choices for another without first consulting him, it is a direct violation of personal freedom; reactions to this type of treatment vary.
During a sociology course based on the family, students were given various choices for extended study beyond those areas covered in the classroom discussions and book reading.
Well, he (Dad) was given slack and choices and he chose abstinence and church.
The time when there are four choices and there are four choices in a difference, the time when there are four choices there is a kind and there is a kind.
Mates for Musculars ΒΆ The Muscular has four choices in the selection of a mate.
It has, on the contrary, every interest in so simplifying its machinery that only decisive decisions and choices are submitted to the voter.
They differ from one another in the character of their errors, as well as in the number of wrong choices of a path which the animal might make on its way from entrance to exit.
I have occasionally observed a record of seven rightchoices result when it was perfectly evident to the observer that the mouse could not discriminate visually.
No record of the choices in the first two of the 17 series was kept.
In the case of other individuals, the cardboards themselves seemed to determine the choices from the first.
The first choice often determined the majority of the choices of the preference series.
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The choiceswhich determine the universe of maturity are often made in youth; then the foundations are laid of that apperceiving mass which is to condition all the man's contacts with reality.
The moralist and the religious teacher initiate new choices, which may become the choices of large bodies of men.
In explaining the individual choices which men make, or the desires to which they are subject, there is much scope for the ingenuity of the psychologist.
Deliberate choices; those half-conscious choices analogous to the unheeded expressions of preference which fill the days of the individual; impulses and tendencies which scarcely emerge into the light--all are expressions of the social will.
Men's choices fall into kinds; there is similiarity in difference.
This we can attain to only as a result of the study of the complex nature of man as revealed in the choices which he actually makes.
The analogy between the relation of separate volitions to the dominant ends which control action on the part of the individual, and the relation of the ultimate choices of individuals to the ends pursued by the social will, is a close one.
He has information, and acts as if he were ignorant; his choices do not issue as a resultant of his desires as a whole; there is no resultant; the single desires make their influence felt separately.
The nature of the pattern as a whole may be determined by the deliberate selection of an end, and to that the other choices which enter into the complex may be subordinate.
The man's choices may be blind, conflicting, wayward, and ill-adapted to serve his interests taken as a whole.
We have seen in the chapter on "Rationality and Will," that we cannot consider a man rational unless his choices are harmonized and converge upon some comprehensive end.
A notorious instance of the attempt to conjure away the bewildering diversity in men's desires and choices lies in the selection of pleasure as the one thing eligible in itself, the unique ultimate object of human action.
Not-withstanding their diversity, volitions fall into classes; it is quite possible to indicate in a general way the kind of choices a given creature may be impelled to make.
You've got to live your life now, you see, Helena, and you will have to learn the habit of making quick choiceswhether you go this way or that.
Some choices are swift and exceeding fervent, others languid and cold: some have a bias entirely toward virtue, while others incline with all their force to its opposite.
And like in nature to these choices are the ensuing impulses to action.
All such teaching as he attempts to do will be worked out from the temperamental, involuntary, primitive choices of his own being, both in persons and in subject.
His power with his classes will be his power of divining the free and unconscious and primitive choices of individual pupils in persons and subjects.
After Henley come House Fours; and then the list of Upper Boat choices is made up by the Captain of the Boats.
The captain, by this means, appoints his successor for the following year, for he arranges these choices in order of merit, just as Lower Boat choices are arranged, and the highest choice remaining at Eton till the next year becomes captain.
If choices were simply between greater or less degrees of pleasure or advantage, it might easily be imagined that the will would be necessarily determined by the greater pleasure.
According to our choices we make the ethically good our own and mould our life into its excellence and blessedness, or the contrary.
The truth is, that all moral distinctions arise out of the conviction that each individual, in the center of his personality, is a soul, itself determining its rational choices and responsible for the conduct of life.
Still further, man's powers of action, in which the ethical distinctions and choices are wrought out into their proper deeds, are part of his organization for the true moralities of life.
That which experience shows to be useful, as promotive of personal or social interests and happiness, becomes thereby right, or the norm of moral choices and conduct.
But the ethical choices have their place in the presence of motives of different kinds, between right and enjoyment, duty or gain; and here there is unquestionable room for free ethical choices.
As in intellectual action the soul is causal for knowing or thinking, and in the sensibility it is causal for feeling or really feels, so in will the ego or rational self is acting as the cause of the choices which it makes.
The law revealed stands independent of the individual's personality or choices and asserts itself over him.
And by this we are to understand something more than the simple uniformity in which all the psychical activity, except that of the choices of the will, is held under "fixed laws of thought and feeling.
We must keep in mind here the relation between moral law and will, or the choices of the will.
The moral emotions are occasions for ethical choices and deeds.
The witness to it is direct, and he holds himself, and others hold him, responsible for his choices and the deeds he does in carrying them out.
Of course that which we name "the will" is simply the soul's power of choosing, or rather, it is the personal self as causal for choices and executive action.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "choices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
