John Burdett

It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path.

British Novelist

J. G. Ballard

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

British Author

Kay Ivey

Better access to healthy foods in underserved communities will help children develop properly, help senior citizens stay healthy and help reduce long-term health-care costs for those that opt for this type of diet over eating unhealthy foods.

American Politician

Remo D'Souza

Youngsters are selecting dance as a profession and are aiming for an aspiring career in the field of dance. I am happy to see that we brought about that change and encouraged young people to opt for dance as their path.

Indian Dancer

Karen Armstrong

Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

English Writer

Pat Summitt

We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

American Coach

Kapil Sibal

If two people cannot live together, both should have the right to opt out of the marriage. In an ideal world, that would be an acceptable solution.

Indian Politician

Radhika Pandit

For 'Zoom,' as the script demanded it, I opted for a shorter hair-style, as I play the character of a modern girl who is self-made.

Indian Actress

Joe Haldeman

Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.

American Author

Karan Patel

Adopting this lifestyle and opting to exercise has helped me a lot in life.

Indian Actor

'Opt' suggests there are multiple alternatives to choose from, not just a yes/no decision.

Choice Variety

Using 'opt' emphasizes a thoughtful decision, implying consideration was given.

Deliberate Selection

'Opt for' conveys a positive choice towards something, rather than against.

Positive Action

'Opt out' suggests a voluntary departure from a group, policy, or agreement.

Voluntary Exclusion

To 'opt out' can also mean consciously refusing to do something many others do.

Conscious Refusal

 If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour. And the reason so many people are opting out of education is because it doesn't feed their spirit, it doesn't feed their energy or their passion. So I think we have to change metaphors. We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education,

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 an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour. And the reason so many people are opting out of education is because it doesn't feed their spirit, it doesn't feed their energy or their passion. So I think we have to change metaphors.

 Seeing how happy they are, he decides that, instead of simply eating them, he’ll put their friendship to the test with a cruel dilemma. He’ll ask each gingerbread man whether he’d opt to Spare or Sacrifice the other. They can discuss, but neither will know what the other chose until their decisions are locked in.

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 not because his parents opted for a different destiny. He was three when he became a mixed drink of one part left alone and two parts tragedy, started therapy in eighth grade, had a personality made up of tests and pills, lived like the uphills were mountains and the downhills were cliffs,

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 Dumplings continued to take off and diversify in China over the next thousand years. Instead of the traditional meat filling, some communities opted for vegetarian dumplings. People developed new cooking methods. And because wheat was harder to cultivate outside of northern China,

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 or how a student was particularly cruel to them. And then some kind of opt out of thinking of themselves as creative at that point. And I see that opting out that happens in childhood, and it moves in and becomes more ingrained, even, by the time you get to adult life.

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 special work for him and he had opted a number of children mostly girls and put them in schools made sure that they got education he appeared with them in public instilling a sense of normal that woman did sports they became professionals we had world's first

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 and polluting communities around the world. Moving forward, a great way we can counter this plastic pollution is to reduce the amount of single-use plastics we use. By opting, instead, for reusable alternatives

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 prescribed combinations, or to opt for particular food substitutes, like drinks, bars, or powders. The truth is shedding pounds in the long run simply doesn't have a quick-fix solution.

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 and surprisingly bloodthirsty tastes. So, some fly fishermen opt for something a little more substantial.