Alternatives Quotes - Page 14

• If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.

  Seth Godin

  Up To You, Way, Action

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• Our agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can grow, improve, progress, and seek perfection. Without agency, none of us could grow and develop by learning from our mistakes and errors and those of others.... I do not really think the devil can make us do anything. Certainly he can tempt and he can deceive, but he has no authority over us that we do not give him.

  James E. Faust

  Father, Mistake, Thinking

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• We should see dreaming as one of our responsibilitie s, rather than an alternative to one.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Dream, Should

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• To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United States, hegemonic ideologies concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation are often so pervasive that it is difficult to conceptualize alternatives to them, let alone ways of resisting the social practices that they justify.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Practice, Class, Ideas

  Patricia Hill Collins (2000). “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment”, p.284, Psychology Press

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• ...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ocean, Men, Thinking

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• A fuel prices remain unstable and our nation's highways and airports suffer ever-increasing congestion and delays, Amtrak offers an invaluable alternative upon which Americans have come to rely

  Jim Jeffords

  Airports, Fuel Prices, Suffering

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• We don’t experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing our escape route, not looking for alternatives, not thinking that there is ample time to do things later

  Pema Chodron

  Mean, Thinking, Giving

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.164, Shambhala Publications

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• Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all... it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World

  Arundhati Roy

  Business, Choices, World

  Arundhati Roy (2001). “Power Politics: The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin”, D C Books

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• Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace.

  Amber Heard

  Growing Up, Reading, Rebellion

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• For a healthy alternative to buffalo wings, slide the bone of a human finger into a block of tofu and bake.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Block, Wings, Healthy

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• It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Trying, Band, Kill Me

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• Individuals can make choices about their own health treatments, but it is critical public health decisions are evidence based and that consumers have appropriate evidence based information about alternative health products.

  Metiria Turei

  Choices, Decision, Information

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• Our civilization is facing a radical, imminent mass change. The alternative to the hierarchical power structure is based on mutual aid and group consensus. As hackers we can learn these systems, manipulate these systems, and shut down these systems if we need to.

  Jeremy Hammond

  Civilization, Groups, Needs

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• Only unconditional grace can transform a hardened heart into a grateful heart. Only a free gift can demolish any notion of quid pro quo. Only an utterly merciful act of love can fashion a new creation capable of love. As theologian Karl Barth puts it, 'As the beloved of God, we have no alternative but to love him in return.

  Mark Galli

  Fashion, Grateful, Heart

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• There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).

  John Bradshaw

  Dark, Medicine, Age

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• The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, War, Relief

  "The Impending Catastrophe and How to Fight It". Book by Vladimir Lenin, 1917.

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• ... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.

  Anthony de Jasay

  Government, Choices, Individual

  Anthony De Jasay (2014). “Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy and Order”, p.49, Routledge

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• Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.

  Page McConnell

  Inspiration, Rocks, Worry

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• If you can accept the flow of life and give in to it, you will be accepting what is real. Only when you accept what is real can you live with it in peace and happiness. The alternative is a struggle that will never end because it is a struggle with the unreal, with a mirage of life instead of life itself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Struggle, Acceptance

  "Spiritual Solutions #15: Find the Flow" by Deepak Chopra, Annie B. Bond, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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• The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Ideas, America, Long

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• We desire peace. However, if imperialism insists on fighting a war, we will have no alternative but to take the firm resolution to fight to the finish before going ahead with our construction. If you are afraid of war day in day out, what will you do if war eventually comes? First, I said that the East Wind is prevailing over the West Wind and war will not break out, and now I have added these explanations about the situation in case war should break out. Both possibilities have thus been taken into account.

  Mao Zedong

  Peace, War, Taken

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.

  Naomi Wallace

  Reading, Thinking, Space

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• In the inheritance, I seek to dramatically distinguish between genuine, authentic Christianity on the one hand, and counterfeit, alternative spirituality on the other hand. One of my primary purposes is to demonstrate that there are two kingdoms operating in the earth today, the genuine, superior kingdom of Jesus Christ, which reigns supreme, and the counterfeit, occult kingdom of the enemy, which, through extreme subtlety, has led millions of deluded souls astray.

  Brian Williams

  Jesus, Hands, Two

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• Much of John Kerry's recent surge has come at the expense of Howard Dean. The situation reflected in his hot new bumper sticker, 'Dated Dean, Married Kerry.' It's cute and a lot more tasteful than the alternative version, 'Dated Dean, Married Kerry, Finger-Banged Kucinich.'

  Jon Stewart

  Cute, Hot, Married

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• Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Odds, Outcomes, Causes

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2007). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.224, Penguin UK

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