#alternative

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. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#best #cherished #failed #folly #life

Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#alternatives #america #assistance #clean #clean energy

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#alternative #american #american people #bipartisan #choices

Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#arms #be careful #careful

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#aggressive #alternatives #conflict #creative #passive

Natural,my ass! The worst poison known to man comes from a tree frog in South America. You cannot imagine how small an amount would be necessary to kill you.and it's natural.Calling something NATURAL is a MEANINGLESS MARKETING PLOY." "All right,calm down! Maybe I like alternative medicine because it's been in use for more than six thousand years.After all that time,they have to know what they're doing." "You mean the wacky idea that somehow in the distant past people had more scientific wisdom than they do today?That's both crazy and counterintuitive.Six thousand years ago people thought thunder was a bunch of gods moving around furniture." -Conversation btw Dr.Jack Stapleton and Vinnie ↗

— Robin Cook

#medicine #natural #otc #science #imagination

We do not inherit the Earth from our parents. We borrow her from our children. ↗

— Keith David Henry

#informational #inspirational #metaphysial #inspirational

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound. ↗

— Ron Carter

#electric #felt #i #popular #present

Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#choices #funny

If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. ↗

— Russell Means

#libertarian #native-american #men