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• Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Thinking, Childhood, Feelings

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). “Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education”

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• A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention.

  Wes Fesler

  Parent, Attention, Intention

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• Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Real, Process

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• I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It’s certainly the most miserable state to be in but it’s also tremendously gratifying, really—rage feels justified. And it’s an excellent substitute for action. Why would you want to sacrifice rage to go about the long, difficult, dreary business of making something more tolerable?

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Sacrifice, Long, Experts

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• Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.

  Rosser Reeves

  Simple, Advertising, Cry

  Rosser Reeves (1961). “Reality in Advertising”, p.129, BookBaby

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• Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Kind, Construction, Solidarity

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.

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• Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised

  Dick Durbin

  Giving, Quality, Vets

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• The professional dedicates himself to mastering technique not because he believes technique is a substitute for inspiration but because he wants to be in possession of the full arsenal of skills when inspiration does come.  The professional is sly.  He knows that by toiling beside the front door of technique, he leaves room for genius to enter by the back.

  Steven Pressfield

  Inspiration, Believe, Skills

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.84, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

  Mason Cooley

  Apathy, Indifference, Excellent

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• You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

  Fred Thompson

  Promise, Example, Expenses

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• Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Practice

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.94, Rodale

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• Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able to underline passages and not worrying about dropping them in the bath or running out of power. I also find print books objects of beauty.

  J. K. Rowling

  Running, Book, Worry

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• If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their authors substitute the fundamental concepts of any particular science for those of metaphysics.

  Etienne Gilson

  Adventure, Analysis, Fundamentals

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• Jesus did not come to live as an example of how to die as a martyr, but as a substitute, taking the place that we deserve in order that we might enjoy what we don't deserve. This is good news. Let us tell all our friends!

  Alistair Begg

  Jesus, Order, Example

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• I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks.

  Glen Cook

  Honesty, Nice, Lying

  Glen Cook (2008). “The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

  Grover Cleveland

  Sound, Currency

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• Explanations are a substitute for trust.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Explanation

  Tullian Tchividjian (2009). “Do I Know God?: Finding Certainty in Life's Most Important Relationship”, p.162, Multnomah

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• When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

  Brennan Manning

  Dirty, Feet, Adequate

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.124, NavPress

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• Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  God, Religious, Joy

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• Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies at the birth of Dionusos. Hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of resurrection by the tomb of buried Deity at Lerna or at Sais.

  Albert Pike

  Order, Rising, Earth

  Albert Pike (1932). “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry”, p.166, Lulu.com

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• Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

  Mary Daly

  Religious, Work, Workaholic

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• Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.

  Diana Trilling

  Marriage, Couple, Errors

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• Terror. When you come home and notice everything you own has been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you-you hear it-you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around there’s nothing there.

  Stephen King

  Taken, Home, Light

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• I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence, I even hate (suffer me to say so) those duties of friendship which substitute propriety for interest, and circumspection for feeling. How shall I say it? I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Hate, Self, Feelings

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• Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.

  Maureen Howard

  Acceptance, Needs, Helping

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