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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

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Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

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Nector [speaking to Bernadette] could have told her, having drunk down the words of Nanapush, that comfort is not security and money in the hand disappears. He could have told her that only the land matters and never to let go of the papers, the titles, the tracks of the words, all those things that his ancestors never understood how the vital relationship to the dirt and grass under their feet. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

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There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way. ↗

— David Carradine

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In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

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If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things. ↗

— Linford Christie

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The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

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I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

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