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• The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Inspirational, Teenage, Target

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• The heaviness leaves, and if I'm patient enough it can be replaced by something I need, somthing that would fill instead of drown and let me breathe instead of bleed.

  Karin Lowachee

  Needs, Patient, Breathe

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• If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert

  Thomas Ian Nicholas

  Gun, Guitar, Would Be

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• In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Reality, Class, World

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• By bridging the literacy barrier through the use of 3D interactive models we overcome the inherent limitations of text. At the same time, language differences become much less important as text is replaced by interactive, 3D images.

  Fay Chung

  Differences, Important, Overcoming

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• The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Mistake, Self, People

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• Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Law, Ethics, Modernity

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.37, Random House

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• All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Art, Memories, Past

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• But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want to read.

  William Zinsser

  Jobs, Old Job, People

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• I'm not trying to convert the Jewish people to the Christian faith... In fact, trying to convert Jews is a waste of time. Jews already have a covenant with God and that has never been replaced by Christianity.

  John Hagee

  Christian, Covenant With God, People

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• Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.

  Friedrich Engels

  Political, Expansion, Appearance

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

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• The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of the means of production in the name of societythis is, at the same time, its last independent act as a State. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The State is not abolished. It dies out.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Independent, Government

  Friedrich Engels (2008). “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific”, p.70, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Acceptance, Past

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• A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.

  Michael Connelly

  Community, Tents, Newspapers

  "New novel revisits old character". Interview with Chris Talbott, www.postandcourier.com. July 10, 2009.

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• I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

  Georges Duhamel

  Moving, Thinking, Want

  "Scenes de la vie future". Book by Georges Duhamel (p. 52), translated, 1930.

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• As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more advanced ones, the latter are merely elaborations on the former and remain dependent on them. This also means that empathy comes naturally to us. It is not something we only learn later in life, or that is culturally constructed.

  Frans de Waal

  Mean, Later In Life, Empathy

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• Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

  Tony Visconti

  Tape, Computer, Classroom

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• Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Creativity, Self, Initiative

  "Centesimus Annus". Encyclical Letter by Pope John Paul II, w2.vatican.va. May 01, 1991.

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• I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

  Pat Oliphant

  Hate, Taken, Administration

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• There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.

  Max Born

  Believe, Two, Scientific Method

  1951 Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance.

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• I don't want to see Superman replaced with Superboy.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Want

  "Gavin DeGraw remembers NYC struggles, knows his place" by Carolyn E. Davis, www.mtv.com. March 25, 2005.

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• Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence. Every crack trickles, every overhang drips. The screech of nighthawks has been replaced by the splash of rain. The rain falls from the height of streetlights. Each drop contains its own shattering blue bulb.

  Stuart Dybek

  Running, Rain, Fall

  Stuart Dybek (2004). “The Coast of Chicago: Stories”, p.86, Picador

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• Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mistake, Ignorance, Greed

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• I grew up on you have to work hard for money, you have to work hard for money. And so I replaced that with, money comes easily and frequently.

  Loral Langemeier

  Hard Work, Grew Up, Grew

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• Media has changed dramatically, as you and I know. We're in a world now where you're rewarded for being outrageous. Punditry has replaced reporting as the gold standard of journalism.

  Mark Leibovich

  Media, Gold, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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