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«I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy»
Author: Anna Quindlen
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Diplomacy,
Machines
| Keywords:
agreed upon, alternative, diplomacy, prototype, prototypes, time machine
«Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond earth.»
«I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist»
Author: Sally Kempton
| Keywords:
alternative, as an alternative, became, becoming, feminist, masochist, masochists
«Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.»
Author: Thomas J. Watson
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| Keywords:
alternative, come back, doing nothing, manage, Right or Wrong, slap, slapped, slapping, slaps
«Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all... it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World»
Author: Arundhati Roy
(Author)
| Keywords:
alternative, contract, inefficient, mutually, preferably, presented, profitable, ruling, Third World
«Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.»
«Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.»
«It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.»
«Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air... It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
Air conditioning, alternative, board, excitement, Fresh Air, gambling, guzzle, guzzling, irritability, lounge, lounging, steamer, Steamers, violates
«It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.»
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