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• I don't like medicine. There's an old Irish proverb that goes, "If I knew where I was going to die, I wouldn't go there." I suspect that I'm going to die in a hospital, so every time I go past one, I drive really quickly to get away from those things. So I spend a lot of money on health: gyms, I go to naturopaths, acupuncturists; anybody else who's almost the alternative to medicine. I think by the time you need medicine, it's too late. That's my belief.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Past, Thinking, Medicine

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• Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.

  Adrienne Rich

  Destiny, Ideas, Flow

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• The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.

  Winston Churchill

  Politics, United States, Right Thing

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• patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as minorities, with challenging, alternative views.

  Hazel Henderson

  Technology, Views, Challenges

  Hazel Henderson (1988). “The Politics of the Solar Age: Alternatives to Economics”, Knowledge Systems

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• Joy is not an alternative to opposition; it is part of a compound that includes opposition.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Joy, Compounds, Opposition

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• A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not.

  Carl Eckart

  Choices, Action, Passage Of Time

  Carl Eckart (1984). “Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science”

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• And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word implies a medicine untroubled by human limitations, contrived wholly by nature or God or perhaps intelligent design. What 'natural' has come to mean to us in the context of medicine is 'pure' and 'safe' and 'benign'. But the use of 'natural' as a synonym for 'good' is almost certainly a product of our profound alienation from the natural world.

  Eula Biss

  Powerful, Mean, Intelligent

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• From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

  Drew Barrymore

  Perspective, Age, Lucky

  Interview with Elle, www.elle.com. July 8, 2010.

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• I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.

  Natascha McElhone

  Father, Natural, Grew Up

  "What I know about men". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.

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• I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

  Cyndi Lauper

  People, Doe, Want

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, music.avclub.com. June 22, 2010.

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• People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant.

  Eugen Drewermann

  People, Choices, Pay

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• Non-Newtonian calculi... have considerable potential as alternative approaches to traditional problems.

  Ivor Grattan-Guinness

  Problem, Approach, Traditional

  "Non-Newtonian Calculus", Middlesex Math Notes, 1977.

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• Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.

  William Pfaff

  Believe, Government, Democracy

  "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 23, 1989.

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• In Hollywood, the ... basic freedom of being able to choose between alternatives is absent. The gifted people who have the capacity for choice cannot exercise it; the executives who technically have the freedom of choice do not actually have it, because they usually lack the knowledge and imagination necessary for making such a choice.

  Hortense Powdermaker

  Exercise, People, Imagination

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• I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

  Anushka Sharma

  Beach, Boys, Rocks

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• I think it's important for those of us in a position of responsibility to be firm in sharing our experiences, to understand that the babies out of wedlock is a very difficult chore for mom and baby alike... I believe we ought to say there is a different alternative than the culture that is proposed by people like Miss Wolf in society... And, you know, hopefully, condoms will work, but it hasn't worked.

  George W. Bush

  Mom, Baby, Believe

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• (...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of other kinds, concept-driven art is a kind of existencial channel through which they bring meaning to their lives. It demands leaps of faith, but it rewards the believer with a sense of consequence. Moreover, just as churches and other ritualistic meeting places serve a social function, so art events generate a sense of community around shared interests

  Sarah Thornton

  Atheist, Art, Community

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• Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” Nemeth says. “It wakes us right up.”

  Jonah Lehrer

  Views, California, Perspective

  "Groupthink: The brainstorming myth" by Jonah Lehrer, www.newyorker.com. January 30, 2012.

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• I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Views, Asking

  "Wolfowitz Elected 10th President of the World Bank". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 31, 2005.

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• In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the vertical dimension of faith and the horizontal dimension of love for ones neighbor and political change.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Christian, Political, Dimensions

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• The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Civilization, Principles, Bases

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• Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

  Dan Barber

  Agriculture, Needs, Looks

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• You wanna be counter-culture? You wanna be a total rebel? Get a job! You wanna be counter-culture, totally alternative, radical? Be a virgin until you get married...to a person of the opposite gender. And then stay married and pump out some kids and pay your taxes and read the Bible, you freak. You'll be just totally a rebel.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jobs, Kids, Opposites

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• I sort of do what I say and say what I do which I'm happy with because it makes my life real easy. When I was younger, people would say that I was inspired by David Lynch, so I went and watched his stuff and I was surprised. I thought it was smart, with what I was trying to do lyrically. So I started watching some of his stuff. I've never seen his movies in [their] entirety, I'm more interested in him as a person and how he came to be successful taking an alternative route, sort of a subculture icon.

  Lana Del Rey

  Real, Smart, Successful

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?"

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Phones, People, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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