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The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. George Washington

Revenge, Party, Spirit, More, Natural

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can't get creative and find alternate solutions if they don't listen to each other. There's a lot of arguing and justifying. Stephen Covey

Creative, People, Find, India, Listen

I work out for an hour and a half every day, alternating between cardio and weights. I also do yoga for an hour every alternate day and swim every other day. Tena Desae

Work, Day, Every Day, Swim, Work Out

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. Henry James

Museums, Palaces, Conservatives

I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up with alternate story lines to the stuff I watched and read, a lot of books and TV, episodes of 'Twilight Zone.' I didn't think about it. Ryan Coogler

School, Think, Story, My Own, Always, Up

I always say that my favorite people to interview are the people who are at the beginning and the ends of their lives because they have two alternate perspectives of the world, and neither of them are less profound. Brandon Stanton

Beginning, People, World, Say, Interview

As a kid, I loved the idea of alternate possibilities, roads not taken, that sort of thing - and I think seeing the 'Adventure Time' universe rendered by the artists in those stories will scratch that same itch really well. Ryan North

Time, Adventure, Roads, Loved, Universe

Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions... we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us. Noreena Hertz

Habit, Questions, Distance, Rhetoric, Us

In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate. Victor Vasarely

Freedom, Research, Intellectual, Basic

The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things. Meghan Daum

Writing, Challenge, People, Thinking

The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us. Jerry Garcia

Live, Media, Start, Important, Kind, Us

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals. Franz Schubert

Man, Two, Other, Sane, Eccentric, Which

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk. Maureen Dowd

Happy, Journalism, Rumors, Talk, Own

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world. Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Life, Time, Live, Day, Growing Up, World

Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal. Robin S. Sharma

Best, Performance, Play, Understand, Top

Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe. Ezra Koenig

Universe, Credit, Enough, Like, Being

I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that. Carl Lewis

Chance, Want, Season, Intention, Through

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing. Kate Atkinson

History, Me, What If, Big, Because

As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to call it that... adventure travel. Buzz Aldrin

Adventure, Travel, Space, Moon, You

I attend dance class every alternate day, and it works like a cardio workout for me. I also do weight training in the gym every alternate day. Tena Desae

Dance, Day, Training, Me, Gym, Class

If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call 'arthouse' movies. Guillermo del Toro

Me, Movies, You, Hollywood, Ask, Call

Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product. Bo Bennett

Think, Reality, Living, You, Way, Feel

I alternate between a few scents. I love 'Oribe Cote d'Azur Eau de Parfum' and both the 'Wild Bluebell' and 'Wood Sage & Sea Salt Colognes' by Jo Malone. Meghan Markle

Love, Sea, Salt, Wild, Wood, Sage

I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and 'Fringe' allows you to do that. It's slightly scary and believable. There just might be an alternate universe. There just might be people on the other side that are like us, living a different life. Jill Scott

Life, People, Think, Universe, Enjoy

So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence. Dick Van Dyke

People, Think, Violence, Choice, Sex

'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination. Peter Jackson

Imagination, World, Small, Own, Rings

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