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• As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Airplane, United States

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• This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way it's going to be. We're going down there, and we're throwing everything we have into it, and we're going to make it a success.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Ghetto, Sacrifice, Victory

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• We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

  Peter Drucker

  Anarchy, Disappear, Tyranny

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Future of Industrial Man”, p.107, Routledge

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• The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, United States, Obligation

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• Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Attitude, Self, Support

  Morris Raphael Cohen (1993). “The Faith of a Liberal”, p.437, Transaction Publishers

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• A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

  Chet Atkins

  Long, Giving, Way

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• I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

  Ron Carter

  Music, Halloween, Responsibility

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• And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Media, People, Mass

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• If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.

  Gary Oldman

  Wish, Lennon, Has Beens

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• Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

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• In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

  Robert Orben

  Humor, Fighting, Two

  Robert Orben (2011). “2100 Laughs for All Occasions: Short, Sharp, Topical, and Funny--Arranged in Categories for Reading, Telling, Laughing”, p.7, Main Street Books

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• People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

  Edwidge Danticat

  People, Trying, Want

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• The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

  Richard Neal

  Benefits, Burden, Certain

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• It hit me very early on that something was terribly wrong, that I would see silos full of food and supermarkets full of food, and kids starving. ... In Fair Trade, we see ourselves as this infinitesimal part of the world economy. But somebody's got to come up with an alternative model that says children eating is No. 1.

  Medea Benjamin

  Children, Kids, World

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• It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

  Jacque Fresco

  Offering, Enough, Criticize

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• I became a vegetarian in 1958 and it was very difficult in those days to really maintain that because there weren't many options... alternatives. But, now, it's a growing trend because... the economics are there. See, there's simply enough people demanding it that it's profitable to supply vegetarians with those products.

  Dennis Weaver

  People, Growing, Trends

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• I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

  Mary Karr

  Needs, World, Poet

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• The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Perception, Tasks, Ministry

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• But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.

  David Frum

  Book, Thinking, Agency

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• I believe our nation is at a point where there are enough irreconcilable differences between those Americans who want to control other Americans and those Americans who want to be left alone that separation is the only peaceable alternative. Just as in a marriage where vows are broken, our rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution have been grossly violated by a government instituted to protect them. These constitutional violations have increased independent of whether there's been a Democrat-controlled Washington or a Republican-controlled Washington.

  Walter E. Williams

  Believe, Independent, Rights

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.37, Hoover Institution Press

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• The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.

  Cofer Black

  Issues, Addresses, Way

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• Maximise the alternative forms in which a user might receive a service, and the alternative sources of supply.

  Don Chipp

  Might, Source, Form

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• If an institution has become so large that there
  is no alternative except for the taxpayers to
  provide support, should we allow so many
  institutions to exceed that kind of threshold?

  Sheila Bair

  Support, Kind, Threshold

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• If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Israel, then I opt for the second alternative.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Children, Israel, Germany

  "Zionism, Anti-Semitism and the People of Palestine" by Noel Ignatiev, www.counterpunch.org. June 17, 2004.

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• Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

  Blaise Pascal

  Loss, Winning, Lost Friendship

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