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• And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Morning, Fire

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• If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Cells, Years

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• Most of the different types of cells in our body die and are replaced every few weeks or months. However, neurons, the primary cell of the nervous system, do not multiply (for the most part) after we are born. That means that the majority of the neurons in your brain today are as old as you are. This longevity of the neurons partially accounts for why we feel pretty much the same on the inside at the age of 10 as we do at age 30 or 77.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Mean, Cells, Brain

  Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.21, Penguin

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• Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.

  Vinod Khosla

  Doctors, Average, Machines

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• When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.

  Laozi

  Morality, Goodness, Lost

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• Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Men, Cake, Should Have

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• And so, a prediction, and my heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love. YOU will gradually be replaced by LOVE. If you have kids, that will be a huge moment in your process of self-diminishment. You really won't care what happens to YOU, as long as they benefit. That's one reason your parents are so proud and happy today. One of their fondest dreams has come true: you have accomplished something difficult and tangible that has enlarged you as a person and will make your life better, from here on in, forever.

  George Saunders

  Dream, Love You, Kids

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.42, A&C Black

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• When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and it fear loss. Ask your heart if attachment has replaced love. If we speak to our heart, it will always tell us the truth.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Loss, Attachment

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• Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Loss, Healed You, Broken

  Lisa Scottoline (2012). “Come Home: A Novel”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented', changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.

  Lillian Hellman

  Dog, Children, Sea

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.138, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Literature, Moral, Bases

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• To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that honor life, serve life's needs, and restore money to its proper role as servant. I believe we are in fact being called to take a step to a new level of species consciousness and function.

  David Korten

  Life, Inspiring, Money

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• Folks, I don't trust children. They're here to replace us.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Trust, Children

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• Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one is more covert than a child, and no one has a greater need to be that way. It's a response to a world that's always using a can opener to open them up to see what's inside, wondering whether it ought to be replaced with a more useful sort of preserves.

  Peter Høeg

  Children, Self, Needs

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

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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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• Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

  Tony Visconti

  Tape, Computer, Classroom

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• A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.

  James Bryant Conant

  Science, Facts, Stubborn

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• Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence. We had one dimension of mental ability along which we could array everyone... The whole concept has to be challenged; in fact, it has to be replaced.

  Howard Gardner

  Height, Facts, Dimensions

  Howard Gardner (2006). “The Development and Education of the Mind: The Selected Works of Howard Gardner”, p.47, Routledge

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due time is replaced by one better but the fact remains and becomes fertile.

  Theobald Smith

  Running, Science, Long

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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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