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• The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Perception, Tasks, Ministry

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• If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Israel, then I opt for the second alternative.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Children, Israel, Germany

  "Zionism, Anti-Semitism and the People of Palestine" by Noel Ignatiev, www.counterpunch.org. June 17, 2004.

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• Maximise the alternative forms in which a user might receive a service, and the alternative sources of supply.

  Don Chipp

  Might, Source, Form

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• The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.

  Cofer Black

  Issues, Addresses, Way

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• Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

  Blaise Pascal

  Loss, Winning, Lost Friendship

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• Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mom, Motherhood, Careers

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• You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again... my asset values will disappear, my apartments will be worth a fraction of what they were, my ministers' jobs will be in peril, their security will be at risk and their women will become maids in other people's countries, foreign workers.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Country, Jobs, Together Again

  Straits Times, April 5, 2007.

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• SAS is 'created' 50 million times a year, 15 seconds at a time. These 50 million 'moments of truth' are the moments that ultimately determine whether SAS will succeed or fail as a company. They are the moments when we must prove to our customers that SAS is their best alternative.

  Jan Carlzon

  Years, Succeed, Failing

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• 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 Wheelis

  May, Consciousness, Awareness

  Allen Wheelis (1970). “The desert”

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• We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Time, Learning, Sight

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• At the present time, the alternative is not between change or no change, but between change for the better and change for the worse.

  C. H. Douglas

  Change, Time, Politics

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• To me, spirituality is about two things: The liberation of consciousness from all illusion, so that the true nature can shine and an embodiment in life that is an alternative to the patterns of manipulation and greed that dominate our current culture.

  John William Willis-Bund

  Spiritual, Two, Shining

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• The counselor at our clinic would cry with the girls at the drop of a hat. She would find their weakness and work on it. The women were never given any alternatives. They were told how much trouble it is to have a baby.

  Debbie Harry

  Girl, Baby, Abortion

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• Animal research has lead to advances in the treatment of many conditions... Where there is no alternative available, we will continue to ensure that the balance between animal welfare and scientific advancement is maintained.

  Andy Burnham

  Animal, Balance, Research

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• If the material consumption of a fraction of humanity is already harming the planet, is there an alternative path that enables all of humanity to live more lightly upon the Earth while experiencing a higher quality of life?

  Duane Elgin

  Humanity, Quality, Earth

  Duane Elgin (2010). “Voluntary Simplicity Second Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• The way I see it people don't do what they want to do often enough. They just do some alternative which they'd kind of like to do, which isn't the same thing at all, and as a result that thing isn't enough and they end up depressed and annoyed with everyone else around them.

  Will Davis

  People, Annoyed, Want

  Will Davis (2010). “My Side of the Story”, p.114, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.

  Stephen Hawking

  Doe, Deny, Offers

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• Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Ideas, Battle

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.40, Penguin

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• It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.

  Wendell Berry

  Men, Thinking, Slave

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• Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination to keep on conjouring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Kings, Artist, Imagination

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• One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Elements, Eras, Sides

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2009). “The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series”, p.27, Random House

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• The choice between two of something is not a choice at all, but rather the opportunity to subscribe to the value system which holds the two presented choices as mutually exclusive alternatives.

  Kate Bornstein

  Opportunity, Two, Choices

  Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.111, Routledge

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• Until now we’ve discriminated against each other according to race, religion, age, gender and just about every other differentiation imaginable. Look around you tonight and you’ll see that those differences are gone. Now, to put things as simplistically as possible, there is just “us and “them”, and it is impossible for us to coexist. We have no alternative but to fight, and we must keep fighting until we have wiped them out.

  David Moody

  Fighting, Race, Differences

  David Moody (2010). “Hater”, p.275, Macmillan

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• Love should have no alternatives; love should be the sole reason for loving; love should spring of itself.

  Nick Joaquín

  Spring, Should Have, Reason

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• Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood . . . women will continue to want and reproduce too many children.

  Wilma Scott Heide

  Children, Motherhood, Expectations

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