Quotes and Sayings About Alternatives
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Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?
-- Aaron BelzSource : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.
-- Aaron SwartzSource : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.22, The New Press
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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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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 PetersonSource : "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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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.
-- Alex Faickney OsbornSource : Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”, New York
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Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
-- Alex KapranosSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative.
-- Alison Thompson -
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Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.
-- Allan Bloom -
Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.
-- Allen WheelisSource : Allen Wheelis (1970). “The desert”
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You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever...
-- Allison Pearson -
Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace.
-- Amber Heard -
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I think anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.
-- Anna Quindlen -
As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are actually owned by the same parent companies that scared us into the organic aisle in the first place. "They got you comin' and goin'" has never been truer.
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I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.
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... 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 JasaySource : Anthony De Jasay (2014). “Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy and Order”, p.49, Routledge
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Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.
-- Arthur Keith -
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 -
Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.
-- Arundhati Roy -
What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?
-- Atul Gawande -
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Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.
-- Barbara Smoker -
It is important to emphasize again and again and again that finding a cure is not the problem The cures for many cancers, if not most cancers, exist. But they are not being offered to the patient who has cancer.... Being legally permitted to use an alternative cancer therapy is the problem
-- Barry Lynes -
We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?
-- Betty White -
Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
-- Bill Nye -
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Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
-- Bill Vaughan -
The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.
-- Billy Graham -
Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup -
Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.
-- Brad Blanton -
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Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.
-- Brad Delson -
Joy is not an alternative to opposition; it is part of a compound that includes opposition.
-- Bruce C. Hafen