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Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.
[Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.
American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.
Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.
No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it.
I don't really listen to a lot of 90s alternative indie female stuff anymore, but I loved Liz Phair and Kim Deal when I was younger.
I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.
We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.
And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.
We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?"
We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.
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.
If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.
Of course I would love to battle for victories and be up the front but it's always about where can you be, what are your alternatives.
It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.
Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative.
I question why the department continued to watch the costs escalate without informing Parliament and without considering alternatives.
Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.
More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.
People want to protect their way of life, and when they think it's in danger they start grasping for more extreme-seeming alternatives.
Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.
While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonable show a much more subdued picture.
I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.
When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.
Show people a positive path that enables them to make progress on their own terms. Give them options and alternatives that empower them.
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
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.
When the dollar is in trouble, that will be one of the alternatives, and the more Bitcoins are used, the worse it will be for the dollar.
I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.
Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.
I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.
Until suitable alternatives are found, this vital work should continue so that hundreds of millions more lives can be saved in the future
In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.
Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail.
It's just an easy catchall to describe a style because there are a lot of alternative comics who are completely different from each other.
Look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don’t lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.
The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.
I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.
It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.
Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery.
I prefer to subscribe to that whole, “everything happens for a reason” theory, mostly because the alternative is too disturbing to think about.