Jawaharlal Nehru
Politician, Prime Minister
"The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction."
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Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."
Elon Musk
Entrepreneur, Business Magnate
"Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice."
Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative."
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"If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives."
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"Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world."
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"We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving."
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"It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard."
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"The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be."
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"Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition."
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"With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree."
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"When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil."
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"Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy."
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"If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you."
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"Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others."
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"Our problem today is not how to expropriate the expropriators but, rather, how to arrange matters so that the masses, dispossessed by industrial society in capitalist and socialist systems, can regain property. For this reason alone, the alternative between capitalism and socialism is false-not only because neither exists anywhere in its pure state anyhow, but because we have here twins, each wearing different hats."
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"The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations."
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"Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God."
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"Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that."
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"A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience."
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"Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never "heard of.""
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"Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness."
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"Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations."
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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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