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• If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

  Oswald Chambers

  Reality, Preaching The Gospel, People

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.694, Discovery House

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• However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

  Francesca Annis

  Relationship, Successful, Dating

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• The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Funny, Science

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• I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stupid, Believe, Book

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• My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

  Paul Simon

  Tears, Common, Sometimes

  Song: The Cool, Cool River

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• Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Views, Law, Judging

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• Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

  James Madison

  Reading, Class, Amusement

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Literature, Sole

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• I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.

  Steven Spielberg

  Going Out, Feels

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• Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Book, Idlers, Way

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• Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

  William Howard Taft

  New Day, Effort, Presidential

  William Howard Taft, William Taft “Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils”, Transaction Publishers

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• There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as the African American athlete who was rebellious: Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron... He was accepted in golf clubs that were very tony.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Athlete, Golf, Men

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• If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

  James A. Garfield

  Work, Skills, Presidential

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• Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

  George Santayana

  Religion, Advertising, Argument

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

  John Ruskin

  Science, Facts, Appearance

  Stones of Venice Vol. III, Ch. II

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• A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

  Robert McNamara

  Inspiring, Writing, Computer Literacy

  Robert S. McNamara (1968). “The Essence of Security: Reflections in Office”, New York : Harper & Row

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• In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.

  Harvey Mackay

  Competition, Training, Climate

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• Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

  Brian Greene

  Science, Answers, Sometimes

  Brian Greene (2011). “The Elegant Universe”, p.365, Random House

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• The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

  Elon Musk

  Smart, Thinking, People

  "Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. October 21, 2012.

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• The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

  Bill Nye

  Media, Discipline, Information

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• It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

  Camille Paglia

  Recovery, Europe, Ideas

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• Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Nice, Action, Bipartisan

  "What's Next: Finance Bill?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 27, 2010.

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• There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

  Keith Richards

  Together, Band

  "Excerpt: New book chronicles Keith Richards interviews". Interview with Whitney Matheson, www.usatoday.com. September 09, 2013.

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• Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Political, Politics, Action

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

  Aesop

  Life, Fables, Appearance

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.21, Lulu Press, Inc

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