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• The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Community, Needs

  "How schools stifle creativity" by Ken Robinson, www.cnn.com.

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• Homeopathy offers a safe, natural alternative that causes no side effects or drug interactions.

  Cindy Crawford

  Drug, Causes, Sides

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• 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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• We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Reality, Doe, May

  Walter Brueggemann (2010). “The Word Militant: Preaching a Decentering Word”, p.26, Fortress Press

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• At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our people to armed attacks by the state without offering them some kind of alternative. I mentioned again that people on their own had taken up arms. Violence would begin whether we initiated it or not. Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we saved lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people? If we did not take the lead now, I said, we would soon be latecomers and followers to a movement we did not control.

  Nelson Mandela

  Taken, Offering, People

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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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• Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

  Iain Banks

  Reality, Trying, Fiction

  "Sci-Fi Writer Iain Banks Talks Surface Detail's Hell, Creationist Heresy". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. October 15, 2010.

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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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• The Democratic Party is that amazing thing, out of power for six years and yet exhausted. They're pale, tired, and unready. Too bad, since it's their job to be an alternative, not an embarrassment.

  Peggy Noonan

  Jobs, Party, Tired

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• The only systems we can afford to employ are those that rationally serve the planet first, then all humanity. Not out of some woolly, bullshit tree-hugging piffle but because we live on it, currently without alternatives.

  Russell Brand

  Bullshit, Tree, Humanity

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• Find something that is a happy, healthy alternative to hurting yourself, as opposed to taking a razor blade to yourself because at the end of the day, you're only hurting the most important person in the world and that's you. And you don't want to hurt that person.

  Andy Biersack

  Hurt, Healthy, The End Of The Day

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• The religious fanatic who practices terrorism cannot be reasoned with, because there is nothing you can threaten him with, and no alternative you can offer him that is more palatable than his genuine belief that if he dies fighting you, he will be greatly rewarded in afterlife. Only swift and extreme force can stop him.

  Massad Ayoob

  Religious, Fighting, Practice

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• You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.

  Stephen Tobolowsky

  Beats

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• Jesus came to establish the kingdom of God as a radical alternative to all versions of the kingdom of the world, whether they declare themselves to be "under God" or not.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Jesus, World, Kingdoms

  Gregory A. Boyd (2007). “The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power is Destroying the Church”, p.102, Zondervan

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• I know it's easier to portray a world filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence...It's an easy out. What's a whole lot tougher is to offer alternatives, to present other ways conflicts can be resolved, and to show you can have a positive impact on your world. To do that, you have to put yourself out on a limb, take chances, and run the risk of being called a do-gooder.

  Jim Henson

  Running, Impact, Risk

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• I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity.

  Russell Brand

  People, Humanity, Looks

  "Russell Brand rails against 'corporate and economic exploitation' in viral BBC interview", www.rt.com. October 25, 2013.

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• The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be good). Rather, his teachings and behaviour reflect an alternative social vision. Jesus was not talking about how to be good and how to behave within the framework of a domination system. He was a critic of the domination system itself.

  Marcus Borg

  Jesus, Teaching, Talking

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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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• A competitive threat is not the same thing as an antitrust violation… It is difficult to make out FairSearch’s precise antitrust arguments. There are alternatives to ITA’s software: both the GDSs but also upstarts such as the U.K.’s Everbread Ltd., which has relationships with 60 low-cost carriers, and Vayant Travel Technologies LLC of New York. It isn’t clear, therefore, that competition would be reduced even if Googled didn’t honor ITA’s contracts with other travel companies.

  Peter Gallagher

  New York, Technology, Competition

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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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