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• The way I see it people don't do what they want to do often enough. They just do some alternative which they'd kind of like to do, which isn't the same thing at all, and as a result that thing isn't enough and they end up depressed and annoyed with everyone else around them.

  Will Davis

  People, Annoyed, Want

  Will Davis (2010). “My Side of the Story”, p.114, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.

  Stephen Hawking

  Doe, Deny, Offers

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• Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination to keep on conjouring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Kings, Artist, Imagination

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• One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Elements, Eras, Sides

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2009). “The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series”, p.27, Random House

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• The choice between two of something is not a choice at all, but rather the opportunity to subscribe to the value system which holds the two presented choices as mutually exclusive alternatives.

  Kate Bornstein

  Opportunity, Two, Choices

  Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.111, Routledge

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• Until now we’ve discriminated against each other according to race, religion, age, gender and just about every other differentiation imaginable. Look around you tonight and you’ll see that those differences are gone. Now, to put things as simplistically as possible, there is just “us and “them”, and it is impossible for us to coexist. We have no alternative but to fight, and we must keep fighting until we have wiped them out.

  David Moody

  Fighting, Race, Differences

  David Moody (2010). “Hater”, p.275, Macmillan

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• A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.

  Sue Halpern

  Creativity, Culture, Firsts

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• There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Being Yourself, Accepting, Honour

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• Let heartbreak be alternative to coffe break, five midmorning minutes devoted to emotion.

  Thylias Moss

  Emotion, Break, Minutes

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• I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, Thinking, Hard Times

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2018). “Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.441, Hachette UK

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• Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.

  Sara Sheridan

  Where We Come, Culture, Way

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• The only alternative to soul winning is disobedience to Christ.

  Curtis Hutson

  Winning, Soul, Christ

  Curtis Hutson (2000). “Bread for Believers”, p.83, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• The second edition of There Is a Cure for Diabetes is groundbreaking. Dr. Gabriel Cousens gets impressive results that speak for themselves. He is reducing and even eliminating the need for medication, rated by The Journal of the American Medical Association as the fourth leading cause of death in people with diabetes. This well-documented book is all the more important and a better alternative.

  Terry Shintani

  Book, People, Important

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• A lot of people have said that I'm super-snarky and mean. But honesty is the only way to get people to change. It's very important to be constructively critical - give people alternatives and you're giving them a new way to see themselves.

  Stacy London

  Honesty, Mean, People

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• Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

  Walter Kirn

  Hate, Real, Speech

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• I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.

  Frances O'Grady

  Downing Street, Faces, Arguing

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• TAKE A DEEP BREATH EVERY MORNING; SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR HEALTH. THE ALTERNATIVE IS UNBELIEVABLY TOUGH.

  Gary Jobson

  Morning, Tough, Saying Thank You

  Gary Jobson (2011). “Gary Jobson: An American Sailing Story”, p.126, Nomad Press

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• Here is a biblical and churchly spirituality so needed today as an alternative to the new age nostrums that crowd the mall bookstore shelves.

  Gabriel Fackre

  Biblical, Age, Bookstores

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• The alternative to forgiveness, but by no means its opposite, is punishment, and both have in common that they attempt to put an end to something that without interference could go on endlessly. It is therefore quite significant, a structural element in the realm of human affairs, that men are unable to forgive what they cannot punish and that they are unable to punish what has turned out to be unforgivable.

  Hannah

  Mean, Men, Opposites

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• Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume.

  Jay McInerney

  Hero, Rocks, Wish

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• The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government's assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors' needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior.

  Doug Bandow

  Responsibility, Availability, Impact

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• Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

  Richard Rohr

  Opposites, Addiction, Consciousness

  "Contemplation: Finding Ourselves, Finding God" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• The truly healthy alternative to that chip is not a fake chip; it’s a carrot.

  Mark Bittman

  Fake, Healthy, Carrots

  Mark Bittman (2015). “A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more”, p.98, Clarkson Potter

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• Did it ever occur to you that there might be more than one alternative?

  Richard Dormer

  Decision, Might, Decision Making

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• Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with an open heart and the willingness not to instantly try to get ground under our feet. For instance, if what we're feeling is rage, we usually assume that there are only two ways to relate to it. One is to blame others. Lay it all on somebody else; drive all blames into everyone else. The other alternative is to feel guilty about our rage and blame ourselves.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Pain, Heart

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