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• It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.

  Wendell Berry

  Men, Thinking, Slave

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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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• Love should have no alternatives; love should be the sole reason for loving; love should spring of itself.

  Nick Joaquín

  Spring, Should Have, Reason

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• Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood . . . women will continue to want and reproduce too many children.

  Wilma Scott Heide

  Children, Motherhood, Expectations

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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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• Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail.

  Shane Filan

  Team, Together, Experts

  "Westlife singer Shane Filan declared bankrupt" by Henry McDonald and Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2012.

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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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• We need to get the government out of the way. Inflation hits the middle class and the poor the most. Those are the people who are losing it. We don't have enough competition. There's a doctor monopoly out there. We need alternative health care freely available to the people. They ought to be able to make their own choices and not controlled by the FDA preventing them to use some of the medications.

  Ron Paul

  Class, Fda, Doctors

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• There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side and seeking influence without responsibility.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, Voice, Land

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.

  Charles Bukowski

  Giving, Mad, Nine

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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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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• We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.

  Jacque Fresco

  Trying, Looks, Fit

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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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• To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is possible; to know that we can reimagine the world, rebuild our cities, redesign our lives, retool our factories, distribute innovation and creativity and all live in a world that is not only better than the alternative, but much better than the world we have now.

  Alex Steffen

  Creativity, Cities, Innovation

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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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• I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives to the dominant philosophical historiography: the laughers materialists radicals cynics hedonists atheists sensualists voluptuaries. They know that there is only one world and that promotion of an afterlife deprives us of the enjoyment and benefit of the only one there is. A genuinely deadly sin.

  Michel Onfray

  Atheist, Philosophical, Afterlife

  Michel Onfray, Jeremy Leggatt (2007). “Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam”, p.219, Arcade Publishing

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