"Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living."
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"Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream."
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"We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before."
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"I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later."
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"A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?"
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"If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions."
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"There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution."
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"When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen."
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"I know that many people disagree with the way I disciplined my child. I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that there are other alternative ways of disciplining a child that may be more appropriate."
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"Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative."
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"People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living."
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"I'll never pay above the odds for something if there's a more cost-effective alternative, so I guess that's where the saver in me shines through."
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"I believe that alternative healing methods are much more than just temporary or half measures."
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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."
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"America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives."
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"It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State"
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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."
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"Because the alternative sucks!"
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"It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg."
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"The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative"
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