make up one's mind
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You may see a failure to make up one's mind between two clearly differentiated candidates as an act of ignorance or dishonesty.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But to make up one's mind to do a thing, and to carry out one's good intentions are two very different matters.
From The Girl from Arizona by Rhoades, Nina
One must make up one's mind to combat their exhibitions of weakness by determining to acquire ease of movement.
From Poise: How to Attain It by Starke, D.
My advice was simply to make up one's mind what to read, and then read it.
From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
But then it's no easy matter to make up one's mind when there are so many, many pictures—and so many, many people....
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 26, 1920 by Various