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"The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government."
"Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse."
"Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive."
"What was most striking about the Obama speech in Berlin was not anything he said so much as the alternative reality it fostered: many American children have never before seen huge crowds turn out abroad to wave American flags instead of burn them."
"The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us."
"And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience."
"If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment."
"As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are actually owned by the same parent companies that scared us into the organic aisle in the first place. "They got you comin' and goin'" has never been truer."
"I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity."
"[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative."
"Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions."
"As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative."
"Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and better options for solving problems."
"Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whose value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables."
"Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him."
"Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way."
"I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music."
"It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell."
"Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'"
"Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative."
