Alternatives Quotes

• For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspiring, Success, Failure

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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• So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, People, Ordinary

  "The Phil Donahue Show", www.youtube.com. 1979.

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• When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.

  Shimon Peres

  Thinking, Two, Looks

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Decision, Mind, Absence

  "Man Of The Year: They Are Fated to Succeed". content.time.com. January 02, 1978.

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  Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

  Tom Brokaw

  Motivational, Graduation, Education

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• There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

  John Fowles

  Writing, Novelists, Needs

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• I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Soccer, Numbers, Giving

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• People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

  Edwidge Danticat

  People, Trying, Want

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• The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

  Richard Neal

  Benefits, Burden, Certain

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• The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Anger, Keys, People

  Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.135, Da Capo Press

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• Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

  Matt Groening

  Trying

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• The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Peace, Diversity, Social Justice

  The Observer (London), August 29, 1954.

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• In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

  Robert Orben

  Humor, Fighting, Two

  Robert Orben (2011). “2100 Laughs for All Occasions: Short, Sharp, Topical, and Funny--Arranged in Categories for Reading, Telling, Laughing”, p.7, Main Street Books

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• The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, United States, Obligation

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• Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Funny, Birthday, Health

  Quoted in James B. Simpson, Contemporary Quotations (1964)

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• Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Attitude, Self, Support

  Morris Raphael Cohen (1993). “The Faith of a Liberal”, p.437, Transaction Publishers

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• I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

  Meat Loaf

  True Love, Roles, Fit

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.

  Gary Oldman

  Wish, Lennon, Has Beens

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• Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

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• I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

  Ron Carter

  Music, Halloween, Responsibility

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• A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

  Chet Atkins

  Long, Giving, Way

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• And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

  Juice Newton

  Thinking, Flavor, Audience

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• And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Media, People, Mass

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• As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Airplane, United States

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