"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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"Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history on an alternative pathway that would not have led to consciousness."
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"There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative."
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"It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling to parlay their existing advantage into dominance on the Internet. But it is way less sure [that this will occur] than the certainty 20 years ago that the basic business would grow steadily, so there's more downside risk. The perfectly fabulous economics of this business could become grievously impaired."
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"Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook."
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"The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is"
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"I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information."
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"I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession."
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"It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives."
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"Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees."
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"Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats."
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"Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up."
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"We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny."
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"The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue."
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"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might."
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"The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints."
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