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• Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

  Andre Agassi

  Hard Work, Tennis, Grind

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• Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

  Bernard Baruch

  Thinking, Information

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1970). “Baruch: My own story”

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• Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy.

  Samuel Pisar

  Science, Building Up, Arms

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• Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Science, Common Sense, Accounts

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1976). “The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays”, p.229, Harvard University Press

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• Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.

  Henry Adams

  Law, Bishops, Unbroken

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.222, Booklassic

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• The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

  Norman O. Brown

  Religious, Money, Heirs

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.240, Wesleyan University Press

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• Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

  Eric Hoffer

  Want, Pursue, One Thing

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word.

  Prince Philip

  Believe, Book, Communication

  "Do Books Matter?". Book edited by Brian Baumfield, 1973.

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• The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and reduced him either to a component part of the universe, to an economic animal or to a "physiological bag filled with psychological libido." Once man became materialized and atomized in Western thinking, it was only natural for a totalitarianism to arise to gather up the fragments into a new totality and substitute the collective man for the individual man who was isolated from all social responsibilities.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

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• In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Pride, Men, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

  Paul Mellon

  Unique, Emotional, Intellectual

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• The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Funny, Science

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• Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Judgement, Initiative, Organisation

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• A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

  Robert McNamara

  Inspiring, Writing, Computer Literacy

  Robert S. McNamara (1968). “The Essence of Security: Reflections in Office”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

  Arthur Erickson

  Entrepreneur, Today, Lasts

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Religion, Literature, Littles

  "A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry" (1928)

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• There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

  Thomas Friedman

  Research, Faces, Face To Face

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• I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stupid, Believe, Book

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• If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

  James A. Garfield

  Work, Skills, Presidential

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• Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

  Brian Greene

  Science, Answers, Sometimes

  Brian Greene (2011). “The Elegant Universe”, p.365, Random House

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• I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

  Nathan Fillion

  Book, Hands, Smell

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• Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Literature, Fund, Trust Funds

  Edwin Louis Cole (1982). “Maximized Manhood: A Guide to Family Survival”, Whitaker Distribution

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• I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.

  Hillary Clinton

  Real, People, Audience

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• There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

  Iris Murdoch

  Relationship, Happiness, Marriage

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.148, Penguin

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