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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

Talcott Parsons

Facts, Needs, Fit

Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”

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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 arent exposed to creative music.

Charlie Haden

Heart, Play, People

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During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

Anatoly Chubais

Government, Training, Special

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The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

Sydney Schanberg

Voice, Roles, Paper

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So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.

Paul Weyrich

Song, Media, Giving

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So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.

Susan Estrich

Hippie, Littles, Might

"Naming Kobe Bryant's Accuser". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. October 15, 2004.

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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Government, Goal, Custodians

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We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

Pierce Brosnan

Children, Ocean, Whales

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An honest money system is the only alternative.

Frederick Soddy

Honest

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I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

Brad Paisley

Rocks, Cds, People

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia.

Nathan Deal

Cells, Blood, Adults

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There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

William H. Seward

Slavery, States, Free State

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It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.

Virgil Goode

Moving, Oil, Important

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There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

Bob Brown

Technology, Australia, Environmental

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

James L. Barksdale

Customers, Attraction

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Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need.

Jim Clyburn

Independent, Years, Oil

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There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth.

Rodrigo Rato

Growth, Engines

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If we dont continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.

Judy Biggert

Risk, Energy, Nuclear

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If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

Jaime Lerner

Problem, Traffic, Transport

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That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

Payne Stewart

Sports, Proud, Pay

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I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

William Friedkin

Wall, Character, Examination

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We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

Janet Reno

Years, Community, Want

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In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.

Gerry Adams

Struggle, Eye, Past

Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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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

Insecure, Insecurity, Waste

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I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.

Olivia Munn

Birthday, Thinking, Mind

"Olivia Munn's DOs and DON'Ts". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com.

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