Alternatives Quotes - Page 15

• At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Looks, Care

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

  Ralph Lauren

  Thinking, Looks, Legs

  "Oprah Talks to Ralph Lauren". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. October 2002.

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• The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the Jews as the new Priestly caste. The alternative Church of our society, the Jews, survived in abeyance for hundreds of years. As long as the Christian Church attended to the discourse, the Jews plainly had no chance to compete; but when its power was broken by liberty-seekers, the alternative arrangement came forward.

  Israel Shamir

  Christian, Years, Long

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• More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Agriculture, Fundamentals, Strategy

  "We need regenerative farming, not geoengineering" by Charles Eisenstein, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2015.

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• People need to stand up hold hands, talk about alternatives. Alternatives, alternatives, alternatives. And people united will never, ever be defeated.

  Lois Gibbs

  Hands, People, Needs

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• Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term 'altermodern has its roots in the idea of 'other-ness (Latin alter = 'other, with English connotation of 'different) and suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternatives to a single route. It suggests that the historical period defined by postmodernism is coming to an end, symbolised by global financial crises.

  Nicolas Bourriaud

  Stress, Latin, Ideas

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• I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.

  Timbaland

  Chinese, Asian, Care

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• Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

  Idries Shah

  Sorry, Safe, Remarks

  Idries Shah (1988). “Caravan of Dreams”, p.221, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

  Kristin Hersh

  Guitar, Media, Play

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• The Warrior Diet is the only diet today that challenges all common dietary concepts and offers a real alternative—guidelines that are not based on superficial restrictions, but rather on true principles of human nutrition.

  Ori Hofmekler

  Real, Warrior, Challenges

  Ori Hofmekler (2009). “The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body”, p.112, North Atlantic Books

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• Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Order, Giving, Looks

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• [I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fighting, Coward, Doe

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• To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, America, Abiding

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• Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Politics, Socialism

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• One of the most common words in the invalidating, self-blaming stories we believe about ourselves or our situations is the word "should." The psychologist Albert Ellis has coined the phrase "Stop shoulding on yourself." When you tell yourself that you should feel or be another way, you are likely to feel bad about yourself. As an alternative, try telling yourself that it is okay to feel or be the way you are, even though you have some idea that you should feel or be different.

  William Hudson O'Hanlon

  Believe, Self, Ideas

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• For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it, alone in the history of the West, constituted a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting facade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open.

  David Bentley Hart

  Rejection, Despair, Nihilism

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• We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.

  Peter MacKay

  Country, Stress, Support

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• As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Freedom, Responsibility, Long

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• A much more radical conclusion . . . that, so far as I know, is shared by only a very few students of public choice [is]: that government employees or people who draw the bulk of their income from government by other means should be deprived of the vote . . . It is another example of the opening up of alternatives for investigation and the presentation of new conceivable policy options characteristic of public choice, rather than a policy that all its students favor.

  Gordon Tullock

  Mean, Government, Opening Up

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• Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

  Walker Percy

  Discovery, May, Way

  Walker Percy (1988). “The moviegoer”

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• Look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don’t lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Decision, Looks, Investment

  Joel Greenblatt (2010). “You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market P”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Knees, Bows

  Timothy Keller (2013). “The Mother of God”, p.9, Penguin

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• Thank you to BBC6 Music and Something Else for the opportunity to broadcast my corner of electronic and alternative music across the airwaves for the last 6 years. #‎ RIP6MIX

  Erol Alkan

  Opportunity, Years, Lasts

  FaceBook post by Erol Alkan from Mar 17, 2015

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• A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.

  Allan Bloom

  Mean, Thinking, Life And Death

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Childhood, Parent

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