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• The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

  Margaret Mead

  Failing, Pessimism, Prophet

  Margaret Mead (1970). “Culture and Commitment”

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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

  Fitness, Thinking, Machines

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.63, Ballantine Books

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• It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersections, no fish and no ducks. OK?

  Molly Ivins

  Running, Government, Fishing

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• Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, War, Thinking

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• In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time, project its own image onto history.

  Sheila Rowbotham

  Self, Order, Speaking Up

  Sheila Rowbotham (1999). “Threads Through Time: Writings on History and Autobiography”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. ... The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather - in many cases - offers an alternative to it.

  Susan Sontag

  Independent, Dumb, Secret

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• A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

  Fannie Hurst

  Marriage, Believe, Winning

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• But the argument is still unsound, because the first premise is false: there are other unmentioned alternatives, for example, that Jesus as described in the gospels is a legendary figure, so that the trilemma is false as it stands.

  William Lane Craig

  Jesus, Religion, Example

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• The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Government, Religion, States

  "Anti-Defamation League book -The Religious Right: The Assault on Tolerance and Pluralism In America" by David Cantor and Alan M. Schwartz, 1995.

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• Papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy are the two ecclesiastical versions of this human idolatry. Both papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy require widespread and unchallenged ignorance to sustain their claims to power. Both are doomed as viable alternatives for the long- range future of anyone.

  John Shelby Spong

  Ignorance, Biblical, Two

  John Shelby Spong (1994). “Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity”, Harpercollins

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• The efforts of the majority to destroy every trace of heretical 'blasphemy' proved so successful that, until the discoveries at Nag Hammadi, nearly all our information concerning alternative forms of early Christianity came from the massive orthodox attacks upon them.

  Elaine Pagels

  Successful, Discovery, Effort

  Elaine Pagels (2004). “The Gnostic Gospels”, p.23, Random House

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• I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to not tell the story from beginning to end - to tell stories sideways, to give alternative possibilities that the reader can, in a way, choose between.

  Salman Rushdie

  Giving, Technique, Stories

  Source: bigthink.com

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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 Belz

  Fun, Surprise, Expecting

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise above it and create a new world. That's why I so deeply believe in alternative spaces. That's why I believe in the power of art and activism.

  Eve Ensler

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.

  Arundhati Roy

  Justice, Terrorism, Courses

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.324, Penguin Books India

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• When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Two, Life And Death, Hesitation

  Tsunetomo Yamamoto (2001). “The Hagakure - The Way of the Samurai”, p.35, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.

  Loraine Boettner

  Love, Faith, God

  Loraine Boettner (2017). “The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]”, p.44, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

  Sebastian Coe

  Thinking, Workaholic, Busy

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• The independent project, in a general way, requests a constant work to spread, in the traditional way and in the alternative circuit. It is a fight... but I believe that it is the way.

  Katya Chamma

  Believe, Independent, Fighting

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• The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

  Shulamith Firestone

  Classic, Revolutionary, Traps

  Shulamith Firestone (1970). “The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution”

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• ... between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do not accurately perceive these values.

  Juanita M. Kreps

  Government, Community, Cost

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• The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

  Boris Trajkovski

  War, Loss, Years

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• If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Support, Trials, Terrorist

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 15, 2009.

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• I don't kind of want to be known as a one-trick pony who just does the adult-alternative song once a year that makes it onto the radio and people sort of think it's nice.

  Ed Sheeran

  Song, Nice, Thinking

  Source: www.azcentral.com

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• Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Trying, Energy

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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