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• Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

  Mary Daly

  Religious, Work, Workaholic

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• Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.

  Horatius Bonar

  Want, Recognition, Absence

  Horatius Bonar, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS”, Lulu.com

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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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• A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

  Susan Faludi

  Real, People, Want

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• Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Enlightenment, May

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Courage, Mistake, Elude Us

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.207, Random House

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• Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

  George Santayana

  Prayer, Effort, Range

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.132, 谷月社

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• Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it is the secret spring and indispensable ally of all true work.

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Prayer, Spring, Secret

  George Arthur Buttrick (1934). “The Christian Fact and Modern Doubt: A Preface to a Restatement of Christian Faith”

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• In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Plato, Writing, Media

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• The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Attitude, Men

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• Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

  Bertrand Russell

  Good Life, Heart, Virtue

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Icarus; or, the Future of Science”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

  Bess Myerson

  Mother, Home, Men

  "As American As Cheesecake" by Ellen Goodman, www.nytimes.com. November 15, 1987.

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• I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

  Christopher Hampton

  Class, Decadence, Sophistication

  Christopher Hampton (2014). “Christopher Hampton Plays 1: Total Eclipse; The Philanthropist; Savages; Treats”, p.120, Faber & Faber

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• To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

  Hannes Alfven

  Drama, Writing, Ignorance

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• A few little flowers will spring up briefly in the dry gulley through which torrents of water pass occasionally. But it is steady streams that bring thick and needed crops. In the agriculture of the soul that has to do with nurturing attributes, flash floods are no substitute for regular irrigation.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spring, Flower, Agriculture

  "Notwithstanding My Weakness". Book by Neal A. Maxwell, pg. 7, 1981.

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• Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.

  Semir Zeki

  Artist, Reality, Brain

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• The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of science was the age of Pericles, and the endeavour to substitute certain truth for the prescriptions of impaired authorities, which was then beginning to absorb the energies of the Greek intellect, is the grandest movement in the profane annals of mankind, for to it we owe, even after the immeasurable progress accomplished by Christianity, much of our philosophy and far the better part of the political knowledge we possess.

  Lord Acton

  Philosophy, Light, Political

  Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom: Great Event”, p.7, VM eBooks

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• Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the moment.' A question of the moment is, indeed, a substitute for some notion, such as the idea of God, or hereditary monarchy, or national glory, that has hitherto acted as a symbol of human co-ordination. It provides no new positive certainty to replace the discredited certainty, but is what the name implies: the raising of a question which the old certainty no longer answers.

  Laura Riding

  Names, Ideas, Two

  "Poetry and Politics". "The Common Asphodel". Book by Robert Graves, 1949.

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• There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is instinctly felt by an audience and is reflected in the superiority of his work

  Paul LePaul

  Artist, Skills, Fields

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• The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.

  Robert G. Thompson

  Technology, Simple, Truth Is

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• There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Entrepreneur, Excellence

  Thomas Boswell (1989). “The heart of the order”, Doubleday Books

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• There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Law, Common Sense

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.101, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.

  Thomas Paine

  War, Order, Religion

  Thomas Paine (1945). “The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine”

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• Forgiveness is not substitute for justice.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Justice

  "Pope: ‘The greatest threat comes from sin within the church’". www.digitaljournal.com. May 11, 2010.

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