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• At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate that is, frankly, increasingly obsessed with modishness and flim-flam.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Political, Weight, Next

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• Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other is 1, 2, or at most 3 ... The apparent contraction of volume suffered by gas on combination is also very simply related to the volume of one of them.

  Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

  Simple, Law, Unity

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• People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Hands, Order

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “The planet that wasn't”, Doubleday Books

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• I have one great political idea... That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is very generally trampled upon and disregarded. The best expression of it, I have found in the Bible. It is in substance, "Righteousness exalteth a nation - sin is a reproach to any people." This constitutes my politics, the negative and positive of my politics, and the whole of my politics... I feel it my duty to do all in my power to infuse this idea into the public mind, that it may speedily be recognized and practiced upon by our people.

  Frederick Douglass

  Expression, Ideas, People

  Frederick Douglass' Speech Delivered At The Mass Free Democratic Convention At Ithaca, New York, history.furman.edu. October 14, 1852.

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• The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will be yourself and I will be myself, with quickened senses amplified powers of perception, and vastly increased capacity for reason, understanding, love, and happiness, all of which are qualities we may develop now. Our machines wear out, our barns fall down, and our substance goes back to the dust, but our finest collection of personal qualities will have eternal life.

  Sterling W Sill

  Life, Being Yourself, Fall

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• Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat. Christ used his own body to utter his love on earth; his perfectly real body, with bone and sinew and blood and tears; Christ uses our bodies to express his love on earth, our humanity. A Christian life is a sacramental life, it is not a life lived only in the mind, only by the soul... Our humanity is the substance of the sacramental life of Christ in us, like the wheat for the host, like the grape for the chalice.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Christian, Real

  Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.49, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Way, Hinduism, Source

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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• Your ideas about right and wrong are just that-ideas. They are the thoughts which form the shape and create the substance of Who You Are. There would be only one reason to change any of these; only one purpose in making an alteration: if you are not happy with Who You Are.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Ideas

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.55, Penguin

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• Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Love, Play, Pleasure

  Mary Caroline Richards (1989). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.134, Wesleyan University Press

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• Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears to me to be little more than a shadow without the substance . . . .

  George Washington

  Government, Shadow, Unions

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1931). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”

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• I must admit that when I chose the name, "vitamine," I was well aware that these substances might later prove not to be of an amine nature. However, it was necessary for me to choose a name that would sound well and serve as a catchword, since I had already at that time no doubt about the importance and the future popularity of the new field.

  Casimir Funk

  Science, Names, Doubt

  Casimir Funk (1922). “The Vitamines”

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• The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

  Lord Byron

  People, Giving, Mind

  'The Dream' (1816) st. 1

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• The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

  Felicia Day

  Heart, Mean, Rejection

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I looked to animal and insect imagery to develop the lack of substance and wasted motion that my Terminator has. I tried to tap into the killer instinct inherent in animals, where they are locked onto a target and will walk through anything that gets between them and their intended target.

  Robert Patrick

  Animal, Target, Killers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

  Christian Slater

  Past, Done, Littles

  "Christian Slater: Clean Slater". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. July 1, 1993.

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• Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Spiritual, Art

  "The Dick Cavett Show", September 09, 1969.

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• I don't feel like there's any need to hide the fact that I smoke pot. It's a harmless herbal substance that increases sensory appreciation.

  Ezra Miller

  Appreciation, Needs, Facts

  "We Need to Talk About Ezra". Interview with Jada Yuan, nymag.com. January 9, 2012.

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• Without the ability to visualize a goal and believe it will be reached, nothing of substance will be achieved. Not by anybody. Not at any time. Not in any place.

  Robert Herjavec

  Believe, Goal, Ability

  Robert Herjavec (2010). “Driven: How to Succeed in Business and in Life”, p.11, HarperCollins Canada

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• Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

  Chow Yun-Fat

  English Words, Culture, Strange

  "'Working in Front of the Camera Keeps Me Alive'". TIME Asia interview, www.cnn.com. December 27, 1999.

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• If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.

  Werner Herzog

  Real, Tails, Legs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.

  Werner Herzog

  Law, Elements, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.

  Werner Herzog

  Museums, Venice, Florence

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• A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Doubt, Golden, Mood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am

  Peter Fonda

  Thinking, People, Different

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• My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.

  Natasha Henstridge

  Quality, Roles, Film

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