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Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them. -- Theodor Adorno
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees. -- Saul Bellow
Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here. -- George H. W. Bush
Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year. -- Howard Stringer
I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound. -- Ron Carter
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse. -- George A. Sheehan
The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative. -- George W. Bush
If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon. -- Gary Oldman
Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources. -- J. D. Hayworth
And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience. -- Juice Newton
People need to stand up hold hands, talk about alternatives. Alternatives, alternatives, alternatives. And people united will never, ever be defeated. -- Lois Gibbs
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world. -- John Fowles
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do. -- Abbie Hoffman
I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast. -- Meat Loaf
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. -- Mary Kay Ash
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
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. -- Gavin Newsom
First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government. -- Stephen Harper
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them. -- Jerome Bruner
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
The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
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
The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us. -- Jerry Garcia
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. -- Tom Brokaw
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
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. -- Milton Friedman
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. -- Maya Angelou
If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems. -- Jaime Lerner
Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person. -- Marilyn vos Savant
There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium. -- Bob Brown
When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. -- Abba Eban
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. -- Archibald MacLeish
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive. -- Ann Oakley
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. -- Robert Frank
One of Netscape's main attractions to customers from Day One is that we provide alternatives. And that's cherished by many customers - certainly not all. -- Jim Barksdale
When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist. -- Shimon Peres
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. -- Dorothy Thompson
Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives. -- Gunter Grass
There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it. -- Ernest Istook
It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real. -- Tomas Transtromer
Mr. Speaker, the goal of stem cell research should be to help our fellow human beings. The debate on this issue has, unfortunately, moved into dangerous unethical territory when perfectly moral alternatives exist. -- Jim Ryun
I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music. -- Charlie Haden
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I never have been insecure, because I see what a waste it is. I know there is a solution to insecurity. I don't tend to be thrown by problems that don't have solutions. And insecurity has a wealth of alternatives. -- Drew Barrymore
We are launching a campaign called Wind, Not War, which is about the alternatives to a fossil-fuels-based economy and looking at wind, an alternative energy, as key to that in terms of issues of global climate change as well as issues of democracy. -- Winona LaDuke
At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a poet until I could establish a proud name over others. The alternatives battled in my mind and made my life restless. -- Matsuo Bash?Poet
Clearly, some of the reason people embrace alternatives and reject vaccines is that they are angry and mistrustful of government and of pharmaceutical conglomerates. More than that, we pay too much for health care, it's not good enough, and the system is too complex. We need alternatives. -- Michael Specter
The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives. -- Alexander Osterwalder
I spend so much of my day at work. I would like to have the workplace be part of a healthier strategy. Reminding me more about walking the steps rather than taking that elevator. Not just promoting healthier food in the cafeteria, but providing information on healthier choices. I use it when I look at the alternatives. -- Harvey V. Fineberg
It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere. -- Elon Musk
Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives. -- Tahir Shah
Life is full of alternatives but no choice. -- Patrick White
I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences. -- Marvin Olasky
There are no practical alternatives to air transportation. -- Daniel Goldin
Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives. -- George Soros
You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives. -- Stephen Tobolowsky
We have become blind to the alternatives to violence. -- Wendell Berry
Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them. -- Martha Beck
There are alternatives to pregnancy if you want another child. -- Mallory Ortberg
The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated. -- Lawrence Summers
I think capitalism will survive, because no attractive alternatives exist now -- Jack Goldstone
Animal research saves lives, but wherever possible alternatives should be used -- David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville
Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives -- Abba Eban
Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives. -- Deborah
There is no need for fur - since there are compassionate alternatives. -- Joaquin Phoenix
It's unacceptable to tour using non-environmentally friendly fuel when there are alternatives. -- KT Tunstall
Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur. -- Natalie Imbruglia
I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different. -- Glenn Hoddle
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action. -- Zadie Smith
It's hard in all countries. Democracy is hard, but it's better than the alternatives. -- Jamie Dimon
I think there are other alternatives there than hitting a child, striking the child. -- Sean Hannity
There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal. -- Garth Nix
We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence. -- Mairead Corrigan
There are better alternatives, ... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium. -- Bob Brown
Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. -- John W. Gardner
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Acting aggressively will allow our youth to aspire for better-paid jobs and find alternatives to criminality. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage. -- Alan Greenspan
If you want to follow your dreams, you have to say no to all the alternatives. -- Oliver $
Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives. -- Richard Livingstone
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died -- Daniel Dennett
For someone growing up in America now, there are few available alternatives to the cool consumer worldview." -- Mark Edmundson
The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations. -- Paul Bloom
...the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good. -- Michael R. Solomon
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others. -- Jorge Luis Borges
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. -- Mel Brooks
We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us -- J. G. Ballard
You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives. -- Winston Churchill
I question why the Department continued to watch the costs escalate without informing Parliament and without considering alternatives. -- Sheila Fraser
If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. -- Richard P. Feynman
Love should have no alternatives; love should be the sole reason for loving; love should spring of itself. -- Nick JoaquÃn
We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould. -- Jacque Fresco
Is [football] for everybody? Of course not. But it is a meaningful contribution beyond, I think, other alternatives. -- Jerry Jones
I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive. -- Bernard-Henri Levy
If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives. -- Kenneth Burke
As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives. -- John G. D. Clark
A free society is one in which individuals are free to discover for themselves the available range of alternatives. -- Israel Kirzner
Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat. -- Carol J. Adams
WE CAN ONLY ESCAPE THE BLOODY AND IGNORANT NIGHTMARE OF HISTORY BY EXPLORING ALTERNATIVES WHICH TODAY LOOK FRIGHTENINGLY WEIRD. -- Peter J. Carroll
Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives. -- Eric Maisel
A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. -- Charles Wheelan
America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives. -- Winston Churchill
Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives. -- Idries Shah
At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using. -- Peter Singer
It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives. -- Andrew Saul
I've always had an urge to feed my need to have fun and feel free. I don't see any interesting alternatives. -- Jack Nicholson
Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives. -- Paul Feyerabend
If in doubt, do not pain. Inflict as little pain as possible. Look for alternatives to punishments, not only alternative punishments -- Howard Zehr
Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives. -- Tony Judt
And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all. -- Neal Stephenson
Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair. -- Leo Buscaglia
Until suitable alternatives are found, this vital work should continue so that hundreds of millions more lives can be saved in the future -- Caroline Flint
I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable. -- Twiggy
I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations. -- Vinton Cerf
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
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
... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled. -- Anthony de Jasay

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