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"At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin."
"Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative."
"I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy."
"Too early religious advancement of the Hindus and that superfineness in everything which made them cling to higher alternatives, have reduced them to what they are. The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality."
"If you want to follow your dreams, you have to say no to all the alternatives."
"The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action."
"f you're making the scene as a director, you're looking for alternatives, once you've got to that place that's very much in Rowan's [Atkins] head, to see if you can take it further, in some places. Sometimes you do absolutely know there's something there. You just feel it in your bones."
"Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific."
"If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?"
"The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution."
"Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny."
"Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition."
"Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives."
"The rise of what's called Islamic fundamentalism is to a significant extent a result of the collapse of secular nationalist alternatives which were either discredited internally or destroyed, leaving few other options. Something like that may be true of American society."
"You got to be just stupid to not be focused on alternative energy."
"In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others."
"I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been."
"In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march."
"Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged him and come very close to beating him."
"Attacks on alternative religious groups are attempts to psychologize - to medicalize - a controversy that, on deeper examination, is clearly a controversy over ideology and lifestyle."
