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• capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the country, and therefore the excuse often made for extravagance, that it is good for trade, is based upon false notions respecting capital.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Country, Extravagance, Saving

  Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1870). “Political Economy for Beginners”, p.28, London ; Cambridge : Macmillan

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• The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Regret, Character, Creating

  Friedrich Schiller (2017). “Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller”, p.45, Litres

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• Sex is a fact of life...and while it may lead to abuses...no words need be spoken...for people to know that the subject is one pleasantly interwoven in all human activities and involves the very substance of creation itself.

  Hugo Black

  Sex, People, Abuse

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• Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love.

  C. A. Bartol

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Tools Of Speech". Book by Maturin M. Ballou, archive.org. 1886.

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• Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Ideas, Filters

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• Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.

  Barry Commoner

  Ecosystems, Environmental, Degradation

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• Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as rubbish or is burned-in both cases causing pollution. In the same way, a substance such as DDT or lead, which plays no role in the chemistry of life and interferes with the actions of substances that do, is bound to cause ecological damage if sufficiently concentrated.

  Barry Commoner

  Play, Ddt, Environmental

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• In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.

  Barry Commoner

  Running, Risk, Environmental

  Barry Commoner (2014). “The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology”, p.122, Knopf

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• The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances.

  Al Meyerhoff

  Reality, Environmental, Toxic

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• Additional federal studies are under way to see if any contamination reaches taps or ground water used for drinking, but the program under which they are conducted, the toxic substances hydrology program of the geological survey, is slated to be eliminated under budget cuts proposed by the Bush administration, government officials said... estrogens and similar compounds are increasingly the focus of research by the Environmental Protection Agency and many scientists because of hints that they alter sexual characteristics in fish and other aquatic species.

  Andrew Revkin

  Drinking, Cutting, Agency

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• I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance.

  Kelli White

  Taken, Performances

  "Sprinters say doctor helped get their drugs / Bay Area psychiatrist says he did sporadic consulting for Conte". Interview with Seth Rosenfeld, www.sfgate.com. February 21, 2005.

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• Marijuana is not addictive. People are the addicts and they will find a substance or a belief that will feed the addiction they need to make their day go away. Meaning one looks for a substance that allows them not to live with who and what they really are. To stop addiction we must treat the patient and stop blaming everyone and everything else but the abuser.

  Steven Machat

  Marijuana, People, Addiction

  "A Cannabis Crusader Brings The Fight For Legal Weed To America’s Heartland". Interview with Stacey Chillemi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2016.

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• I want my movies to be commercial, fun thrill rides but I also want them to have substance to them. The fun part is knowing how to roll up your sleeves and get it done.

  Ric Roman Waugh

  Fun, Knowing, Thrill

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• I never considered myself an artist. I aspire to be an artist, but I never thought I had the depth or substance or gift to be an artist. I do think I have some talent, but it doesn't go as far as being an artist.

  Woody Allen

  Artist, Thinking, Depth

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• She was ... the arch personification of the power of Space, Time, and Matter, within whose bound all beings arise and die: the substance of their bodies, configurator of their lives and thoughts, and receiver of their dead. And everything having form or name-including God personified as good or evil, merciful or wrathful-was her child, within her womb.

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Names, Space

  Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology”, Penguin Group USA

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• Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.

  Martin Buber

  Light, Paganism, Function

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Martin Buber (2018). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Hasidism, Essays in Metaphysics, and The Emotions”, p.109, Open Road Media

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• The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, "Oh my God, all these people I’ve admired - and tried to emulate even - when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse.

  Eva Mendes

  People, Abuse, Biographies

  Interview with Vicki Hogarth, uk.askmen.com. November 20, 2009.

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• Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Writing, Mind, Influence

  "Anthony Kiedis interview: Full transcript". Interview with Sofia Wenborn, tvnz.co.nz.

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• My mother gave me a piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. The correction was the meat, the substance. And then she would sandwich that, sandwich that with another piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. That was very important in shaping and molding our morality, our understanding of ourselves, making sure that we didn’t think we were better than or less than anyone, feeling no more worthy or no less worthy than anyone else.

  Lauryn Hill

  Mother, Encouragement, Thinking

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• We have launched an international campaign to legalize coca leaves, and we want the United Nations to remove coca from its list of toxic substances. Scientists proved long ago that coca leaves are not toxic.

  Evo Morales

  Long Ago, Toxic, Campaigns

  "'Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America'". Interview with Jens Glüsing, Hans Hoyng, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• Eggs! They're not a food, they belong in no group! They're just farts clothed in substance!

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Eggs

  "Dylan Moran: Monster". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

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• At the factory, I deal with ex-cons, substance abusers, and sexual harassers. And I'm not just talking about my mom.

  George Lopez

  Funny, Mom, Humor

  "George Lopez". www.imdb.com. 2002 - 2007.

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• Every day, I'll get sent clips via email. I watch them and see if there's something of substance or significance.Some nights are super busy; some nights are quiet.

  Chris Pronger

  Night, Email, Watches

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what I can do." So I wrote a list of ingredients in the book, and warnings that they shouldn't consume those ingredients. The editor and the publisher thought that it was a great way to go in terms of reverse psychology, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that it was reverse psychology. I just thought that it was sort of an honest assessment making clear that if you were timid or easily disturbed, you could turn away.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Editors, Assessment

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms of the science, and to give every substance a new name, the composition, and especially the termination of which, shall define the relation in which it stands to other substances of the same family.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Taken, Science, Names

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.454

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