It has, for this reason, invariably been the fate of conservatism to be dragged along a path not of its own choosing.

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Choosing this career path is completely irrational because the odds of succeeding are dismal, but most succeed because of their unwavering belief, laser focus on delivering and persistence.

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Arsenal opted for the latter and it says something for the insanity of soccer that so many criticize the club for acting in a fiscally responsible manner and not choosing instead a path of assured destruction.

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Throughout the U.S., roughly 10% of household income is spent on young adult (25 and under) children, according to Barbara Ray, co-author of the upcoming book Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing A Slower Path To Adulthood.

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However, Mr Gandhi seems to have gamely picked up the gauntlet at last, and "must be complimented", as The Hindu newspaper remarked, "on choosing to walk the difficult path at a difficult time".

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Women, as a group, have a higher level of education and are increasingly choosing to pursue a successful career path.

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Often the better environmental decision is not to choose a natural or organic path, as one would expect, but to go synthetic--like choosing polyester clothes over cotton.

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As an environmentalist, and someone who believes that everyone in this world has a right to a healthy and nutritious diet of their choosing, I could not have chosen a more counter-productive path.

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By pointedly choosing to portray subjects that were two-dimensional in their own right, he was pursuing the path set a decade earlier when Jasper Johns first painted an American flag, ingeniously showing that the vaunted flatness of Abstract Expressionism could paradoxically be consistent with realism in certain circumstances.

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