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There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go out and meet some of them rather than studying the way that Stan Lee or Chris Claremont depict people.

Alan Moore

Book, Writing, People

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The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things wrong with it. It is so difficult and expensive to obtain for many uses that sheer cost eliminates it. A more economical substitute, which is almost universally used in such fields as opinion polling and market research, is called stratified random sampling.

Darrell Huff

Mean, Cost, Use

Darrell Huff (2010). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.

Brooks Atkinson

Lonely, Writing, Men

Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

Mason Cooley

Apathy, Indifference, Excellent

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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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Sex should be a deepening of communication, not a substitute for it.

Marianne Williamson

Sex, Communication, Should

Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.

Freya Stark

Peace, War, Exercise

Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.

Dwight Morrow

Government, Self, Convinced

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For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

Pauline Kael

Art, Twenties

Pauline Kael (1991). “Movie love: complete reviews 1988-1991”, E P Dutton

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Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large.

Louise Bogan

Strong, Real, Men

Louise Bogan (2005). “A poet's prose: selected writings of Louise Bogan : with the uncollected poems”, Swallow Press

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Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

Mary Daly

Religious, Work, Workaholic

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Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

Augustus William Hare

May, Ancient, Mythology

Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.423

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Three wishes - no substitutes, exchanges or refunds

Robin Williams

Inspiration, Wish, Three

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To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.

Jane Jacobs

Art, Mistake, Order

Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.373, Vintage

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The substitute that thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

John Kessel

Sports, Thinking

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Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canaary as a substitute for a husband.

Stella Benson

Mother, Husband, Son

Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.

Charlotte Beers

Poor, Consensus

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Tis ever thus when favours are denied;
All had been granted but the thing we beg:
And still some great unlikely substitute--
Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good--
Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.

Joanna Baillie

Soul, Favors, Rooms

Joanna Baillie (1806). “A series of plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind: each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy”, p.98

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... law is a substitute for love.

Helen McCloy

Law

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Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Passion, Thinking, People

Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Mean, Goal, Use

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Yes. The original argument is defective. Substitute the word 'male' for 'gay,' and you'll see the flaw: 'Male people cannot be normal. If everyone were male starting tomorrow, the human race would die out, so being male cannot be nature's intended way.' Or you could substitute the word 'female.' In either case, the argument makes no sense: Being male or female is perfectly normal.

Marilyn vos Savant

Gay, Perfectly Normal, Race

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Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.

Leland Ryken

Self, Levels, Want

"Differences in Bible Translations". Bible Translation Magazine Interview, christianpublishinghouse.co. October 10, 2016.

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There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling charge against life. That's living. Living does not consist of sitting in a temple in the shadows and getting rheumatism from the cold stones. Living is hot, it's fast, it's often brutal It has a terrific gamut of emotional reactions. If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said.

L. Ron Hubbard

Emotional, Shadow, Temples

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To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.

A. E. Housman

Thinking, Brain, Pudding

"The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism". Lecture, August 04, 1921.

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