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• Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

  Mary Daly

  Religious, Work, Workaholic

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.

  Rahul Dravid

  Tennis, Balls, Want

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• I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals, that what can be imagined can be achieved, that you must dare to dream, but that there's no substitute for perseverance and hard work and teamwork because no one gets there alone; and that, while we commemorate the... the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible.

  Chris Carter

  Teamwork, Dream, Perseverance

  Matt Hurwitz, Chris Carter (2009). “The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, the Myths, and the Movies”, Insight Editions

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• Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

  Voltaire

  Christian, Men, Animal

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• Although pretend play is important, it is still the means to an end, not the end itself. Do not make the mistake of thinking a contrived, pretend drama can substitute for real interpersonal comfort in dealing with important emotional issues.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Real, Mistake, Drama

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• Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less real, and we are surprised to arrive, notwithstanding a painful labour, only at a result contradicted by nature; as if after having disguised it, cut it short or altered it, a purely mechanical combination could give it back to us.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Real, Cutting, Giving

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• Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Education, Religious, Religion

  "Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798)". Translated in "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected, for the church also sheltered them. The need for shelter - for a father image that cares and will hopefully provide and give some meaning to human lives - remains as real as it was in the Middle Ages, but modern technocracy has no place for either the father or the church and provides no substitute.

  Robert Payne

  Loyalty, Kings, Father

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• We find that the child who does not yet have language at his command, the child under two and a half, will be able to cooperate with our education if we go easy on the "blocking" techniques, the outright prohibitions, the "no's" and go heavy on "substitution" techniques, that is, the redirection or certain impulses and the offering of substitute satisfactions.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Block, Offering

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• A substitute shines brightly as a king
  Until a king be by, and then his state
  Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
  Into the main of waters.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Water, Shining

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 90

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• Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.' This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Wise, Men

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• In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Joy, Looks, Bliss

  Orhan Pamuk (2002). “My Name is Red”, Vintage

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