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• Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition.

  Ann Coulter

  Hate, Competition, Hate Religion

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right”, p.247, Crown Forum

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• My father taught me how to substitute realities.

  Mira Sorvino

  Dad, Father, Reality

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• My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to accomplish the simple business of conducting human lives. We have been sold a bill of goods as a substitute for life. What is needed is reassurance in human emotions; a re-evaluation of our emotional capacities.

  John Cassavetes

  Simple, Emotional, Culture

  "Savages: Silence Yourself" by Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. May 6, 2013.

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• In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake. The mind is giving you substitutes just to protect your sanity; otherwise you will be scattered in fragments.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Sleep, Giving

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• The idea that a reporter has to be 'fair and balanced' is ridiculous. The fact is, the truth usually is not fair and it's not balanced. Truth stands by itself. And the idea that something called fair and balanced is a substitute for truth and fact is mindless nonsense that has captured much of the national media.

  Lou Dobbs

  Media, Ideas, Political

  Studio Briefing, movieweb.com. October 17, 2005.

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• Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography.

  Edmund White

  Sex, Cynical, Adolescence

  Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.278, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is a sin against individual conscience. It makes moral children of the adults from whom moral agency is required. It makes a vow, which is meant to require religious figures to listen always to the law of God, beholden first to the laws of very human organizations in the person of very human authorities. It is a law that isn't even working in the military and can never substitute for personal morality.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Religious, Children, Military

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• Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Children, Blessed, Race

  Lewis H. Lapham (1995). “Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin-de-siècle”, p.18, Verso

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• Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

  Henry Spencer

  Science, Belief, Arithmetic

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• Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

  Henry Williams

  Learning, Science, Simplicity

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• Entertainment is the devils substitute for joy, and when you get satisfaction out of that dumb thing, your joy will diminish.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Joy, Dumb, Devil

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• Love always seeks for betterment, for ways of making life more workable, joyful, whole, and beautiful. Love examines every option available to bring about an improvement in life. This kind of discernment is an act of decency, not an act of judgment. Rigid philosophies of judgment will seek to establish structure as a substitute for decency, control as a substitute for trust, and the mind as a substitute for higher awareness.

  Glenda Green

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Spiritual

  Glenda Green (2002). “Love Without End: Jesus Speaks--”, p.285, Fideli Publishing Inc.

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• And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use.

  Herodotus

  War, Water, Giving

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• Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.

  Bernard Baruch

  Government, People, Individuality

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• Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Self, Poison

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

  Eddie Cahill

  Television, Merit, Theater

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I may drive in a few races next year if someone needs a substitute driver ... (but) if I were never to drive again, I have had a great career.

  Ricky Rudd

  Race, Years, Careers

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• The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

  Dorothea Lange

  Eye, Vocabulary, People

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Definitions

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• Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.

  Karl Kraus

  Work, Imagination, Literature

  Die Fackel, 2 July 1907

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• Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Football, Baseball

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• This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Army, Second Amendment, Right To Bear Arms

  John Church Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton (1860). “History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced in the Writings of Alexander Hamilton and of His Contemporaries”, p.140

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• The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

  Allan Bloom

  Self, Soul, Modern

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• The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.

  Will Durant

  Past, Rely Upon, Police

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• If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

  Immanuel Kant

  Justice, Murder, Miserable

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