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• It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on "civil liberties and human rights" conceived as I have tried to describe them; but of one thing at least we may be sure: the alternatives that have so far appeared have been immeasurably worse.

  Learned Hand

  Rights, Liberty, May

  Learned Hand (1955). “A fanfare for Prometheus”

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• Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.

  Joe Garagiola

  World, Might, Celebrate

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• The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Crazy, Winning, Space

  "Less Than One: Selected Essays". p. 28. Book by Joseph Brodsky, 1986.

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• Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have the right chord. [These voices] will give you some alternatives, and you can play those different alternatives to hear which one suits your ear. Keep the bass line moving so you don't stay in one spot: if you have an interesting bass line and you roll it against the melody, the chords are going to come out right.

  Paul Simon

  Moving, Thinking, Play

  "Paul Simon's Workshop at the Guitar Study Center" by Richard Albero and Fred Styles, Guitar Player, April 1975.

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• Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the mind as well. Use logic, use sense, use the incredible five wits you were given by creation.

  Stephen Fry

  Medicine, People, Mind

  "Room 101" (Season 6 Episode 10, 2001), (1994-).

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• In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.

  Camille Paglia

  Years, Intellectual, Twenties

  "Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, 1992.

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• The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.

  E. O. Wilson

  Light, Views, Toxic

  "Can Biology Do Better Than Faith?". www.newscientist.com. November 02, 2005.

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• Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic" in dealing with a problem is to work only among the alternatives which the most powerful in society put forth. It is as if we are all confined to a, b, c, or d in the multiple choice test, when we know there is another possible answer. American society, although it has more freedom of expression than most societies in the world, thus sets limits beyond which respectable people are not supposed to think or speak.

  Howard Zinn

  Powerful, Pride, Thinking

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.289, Seven Stories Press

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• "Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Legacy, Code

  "Porting to the Symbian Platform: Open Mobile Development in C/C++". Book by Mark Wilcox, 2009.

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• Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to free verse is a crash course in villanelles, sestinas and other such fixed forms. But most... are rare in English poetry. Few poets have written a villanelle worth reading, or indeed regret not having done so.

  James Fenton

  Regret, Believe, Reading

  "An Introduction to English Poetry". Book by James Fenton, 2002.

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• It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.

  Joe Slovo

  Thinking, Ordinary, Racist

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• We also support the exploration of alternative ways to deliver health care. Moving toward alternatives, including those provided by the private sector, is a natural development of our health care system.

  Stephen Harper

  Moving, Support, Way

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• There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.

  Mark Steyn

  Years, Europe, Twenties

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• However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consiously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits' routines, and find alternatives. You must know you have control and be self-conscious enough to use it -- and every chapter in this book is devoted to illustrating a different aspect of why that control is real.

  Charles Duhigg

  Real, Book, Hard Work

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• With leading research universities, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and private companies like Blue Sun working on developing alternative fuels, Colorado is poised to become an international leader in clean energy.

  Ken Salazar

  Blue, Leader, Energy

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• I don't want to be vain or fearful, and I don't think I'll do anything [in terms of plastic surgery], but if I want to do something, I will. From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

  Drew Barrymore

  Thinking, Perspective, Age

  "ELLE's August cover girl on her latest film, her new outlook, and refusing to settle". Elle Interview, www.elle.com. July 8, 2010.

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• Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Incapacity, Propositions, Bigotry

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• If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

  Arthur Scargill

  Matter, Investment, Supplies

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• I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian alternative music. The next day I have on some dance music. It all varies what I listen to.

  Steve Blake

  Christian, Rap, Next Day

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• I know that many people disagree with the way I disciplined my child. I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that there are other alternative ways of disciplining a child that may be more appropriate.

  Adrian Peterson

  Children, People, May

  "NFL Star Adrian Peterson Cleared to Play by Vikings, Speaks Publicly on Child Abuse Charge" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 15, 2014.

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• Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and the principle of taxation to finance agreed actions which provide the basis for governance at the national level. But this will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply entrenched. They will come about not through the embrace of full blown world government, but as a careful and pragmatic response to compelling imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives.

  Maurice Strong

  Law, Play, World Government

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• There is no alternative to class struggle.

  Vyacheslav Molotov

  Struggle, Class, Class Struggle

  "The Fifty-Year War : Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War" by Norman Friedman, (p. 58), 2007.

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• I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that's true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.

  Gabe Newell

  Thinking, People, Bunch

  "Gabe Newell: "Windows 8 Is Kind Of A Catastrophe" By Dan Crabtree, www.ign.com. July 25, 2012.

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• The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

  Peter Medawar

  Thinking, Term

  Peter Brian Medawar, J. S. Medawar (1978). “The Life Science: Current Ideas of Biology”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I think that two wrongs don't make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13 but 15, who have had very at risk, difficult pregnancies. And my counsel was to look for some alternatives, which they did. And they found that they had made what was really a lemon situation into lemonade.

  Sharron Angle

  Girl, Party, Pregnancy

  "Sharron Angle’s Advice For Rape Victims Considering Abortion: Turn Lemons Into Lemonade". Interview, www.americanthinker.com. July 8, 2010.

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