Why did I choose to fill these pages in this particular issue with this mixture of rather tenuous reflections and autobiography??

See half of 'em in their graves before I choose my own coffin.

In one of these letters she tells him that " I choose what I believe, and say nothing.

: Either I will choose soup or I will choose salad.

: I will not choose soup.

: Therefore, I will choose salad.

Nothing is known of her until in order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony ( later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ) to choose whichever one pleased him best.

In the Phenomenology of Perception Merleau-Ponty wrote: “ Insofar as I have hands, feet ; a body, I sustain around me intentions which are not dependent on my decisions and which affect my surroundings in a way that I do not choose ” ( 1962, p. 440 ).

I gave you facts that you can report if so choose.

But I happen to believe that the world is what we choose to make it, and that we are what we choose to make ourselves ; and that our renascence or our ruin will alike, ultimately and equally, testify with a trumpet to our liberty.

I choose John ... a name sweet to us because it is the name of our father, dear to me because it is the name of the humble parish church where I was baptized, the solemn name of numberless cathedrals scattered throughout the world, including our own basilica John Lateran.

After his death, it would be 415 years before another Pope would choose a name with an ordinal number less than IV ( John Paul I ).

I would choose the right-hand weevil.

:: Captain Aubrey: " There, I have you !... Do you not know that in the Service, one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?

When French emperor Napoleon I completed his conquest of Northern Italy and began to push his armies towards the edges of the northern territories of the Papal State, San Marino found itself forced to choose between maintaining the alliance with the Papal State or creating a new one with France.

Frey, a leading animal rights critic, who wrote in 1983 that, if forced to choose between abandoning experiments on animals and allowing experiments on " marginal-case " humans, he would choose the latter, " not because I begin a monster and end up choosing the monstrous, but because I cannot think of anything at all compelling that cedes all human life of any quality greater value than animal life of any quality.

Maybe I should withdraw my advice -- no ''??

The United States would not withdraw back to the Western Hemisphere as it had after World War I.

Hoping to avoid the sack of Rome herself, Emperor Valentinian III sent three envoys, the high civilian officers Gennadius Avienus and Trigetius, as well as the Bishop of Rome Leo I, who met Attila at Mincio in the vicinity of Mantua, and obtained from him the promise that he would withdraw from Italy and negotiate peace with the emperor.

* 1923 – The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul

* October 6 – The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul.

Theodoric the Great finds that he has been only partly successful in persuading the Byzantine emperor Justin I to withdraw his edict against Arian Christianity, and throws the pope into prison.

Pacini himself was the first to recognize his apparent defeat noted in memoirs: " I began to realize that I must withdraw from the field.

I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.

The Emperor quickly demonstrated his intentions to withdraw Imperial support for the Holy See ’ s privileges as laid out by Otto I.

It was clear Putnam was not willing to withdraw completely from the world of librarianship, stating “ I would willingly surrender the administration, if that course would serve the interest of the library and I could feel assured as to my successor .” Putnam provided the suggestion of “ Librarian Emeritus ” be developed as his new official title, with an honorarium of one-half of his original salary.

In 1218, he helped Philip II of France and Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy to bring an end to the War of Succession in France Champagne by invading Lorraine, capturing and burning Nancy, capturing Theobald I, Duke of Lorraine and forcing him to withdraw his support from Erard of Brienne.

In the same interview he stated, " Kennedy hadn't said before he died whether, faced with the loss of Vietnam, he would withdraw ; but I believe today that had he faced that choice, he would have withdrawn.

He is said to have sent a message to Fairfax, saying, " I beseech you, withdraw to yonder hill, which may provoke the enemy to charge us ".

However, his first priority was to conclude a peace treaty with Shapur I of Persia, and withdraw the army from a potentially disastrous situation.

I would rather the States should withdraw, which are for unlimited commerce and war, and confederate with those alone which are for peace and agriculture.

On July 7 of the same year, he was received by Salazar himself, who assigned Eliade the task of warning Antonescu to withdraw the Romanian Army from the Eastern Front (" his place, I would not be grinding it in Russia ").

The Baron de Coubertin, who was also secretary-general of the USFSA, was urged to withdraw from active involvement in the running of the Games and did so, only to comment later, " I surrendered-and was incorrect in doing so.

Speaking at Maryborough, now Port Laoise, on the 16 August 1914, he addressed a 2, 000 strong assembly of Irish Volunteers, some armed, and according to the report in the Irish Times stated, " recently, I took the liberty of saying in the English Parliament that, for the first time in the history of the connection between England and Ireland, it was safe to-day for England to withdraw her armed troops from our country and that the sons of Ireland themselves, North and South, Catholic and Protestant, and whatever the origin of their race might have been – Williamite, Cromwellian, or old Celtic – standing shoulder to shoulder, would defend the good order and peace of Ireland, and defend her shores against any foreign foe.

With this defeat, all hope of holding Paris faded and it was agreed that the French Army would withdraw south of the Loire River and on 7 July Graf von Zieten's Prussian I Corps entered Paris.

Against the advice of Li Zongren, who thought it was better to withdraw south, Chiang, having exclaimed, " I will not return to Nanking until Xuzhou is back in our possession ".

Rehnskiöld writes in his journals, “ Så resolverade jag att draga mig till Fraustadt tillbaka i den tanken att locka till mig fienden efter mig utur sin fördel, inbillandes honom att jag ville alldeles draga mig av ” (” Thus I resolved to withdraw to Fraustadt with the thought to lure the enemy to me away from his advantageous position, deceiving him into thinking I was in full retreat ”.

The Left SRs believed that Russia should withdraw immediately from World War I, and they were frustrated that the Provisional Government wanted to postpone addressing the land question until after the convocation of the Russian Constituent Assembly instead of immediately confiscating the land from the landowners and redistributing it to the peasants.

That would be a great help, I told him, thanking him for his thoughtfulness.

When he wrote to Stephen Spender in 1952, thanking him for a review of his Collected Poems, he added " Oh, & I forgot.

In 1931 he admitted: " In youth I scarcely did any letter-writing — thanking anybody for a present was so much of an ordeal that I would rather have written a two hundred fifty-line pastoral or a twenty-page treatise on the rings of Saturn.

The final segment featured Dunphy thanking his production team and the viewers and, in a nod to the show's theme tune and the battle with The Late Late Show, Dunphy's final words were " I fought the law, and the law won ".

" George T. Bigelow, the chief justice of Massachusetts, spoke admiringly of Wilkes: “ In common with all loyal men of the North, I have been sighing, for the last six months, for someone who would be willing to say to himself, ‘ I will take the responsibility .’” On December 2 Congress passed unanimously a resolution thanking Wilkes “ for his brave, adroit and patriotic conduct in the arrest and detention of the traitors, James M. Mason and John Slidell ” and proposing that he receive a “ gold medal with suitable emblems and devices, in testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of his good conduct .”

Quoting Kline, " I was thanking God that he was there, and you know, everybody's been saying nothing but bad stuff about Todd Bridges on the news and in the papers.

After thanking his co-host, sponsors, syndicators and staff, Michael said this at the end of the show :" I close every show every Sunday by saying ' Thank you for letting us be a part of your weekend.

" My dear Coke, We have written to you officially, but I cannot refrain from sending you a line myself, thanking you for the honor you have brought on the Punjab Irregular Force.

In 2007, Milk Dee recorded a verse for a remix of " I Get Money " by 50 Cent, thanking all the music artists that sampled " Top Billin '," which earned him royalties.

After Mass, Noriega retired to his room where he wrote two letters, one to his wife informing her " I go now on an adventure ", and the other thanking the Pope and stressing that he believed himself innocent and that he had always acted in the best interests of the Panamanian people and requesting the Pope's prayers.

The final session always follows the same format every year, and group members write " I Love You Because's " ( short notes of praise for the other person, offering words of encouragement, and / or thanking the person for the experiences created during the four days ).