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• The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

  James Smith McDonnell

  War, Future, Creativity

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• Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. Don't be tempted to substitute our judgment for your own.

  Ayn Rand

  Temptation, Facts, Judgment

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.613, Hamilton Books

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• Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Hatred, Modern

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.138, Princeton University Press

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• No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.

  Adam Hochschild

  Justice, Pieces, Court

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• Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.

  Edwin Howard Armstrong

  Reality, Men, Arguing

  "Edwin Armstrong: Pioneer of the Airwaves" by Yannis Tsividis, www.columbia.edu. 2002.

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• We have more than enough to take care of everybody on earth at this time. If we have a shortage of anything, it's very easy for science to make a substitute material. There's no shortage of anything except brains in Washington.

  Jacque Fresco

  Brain, Earth, Care

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• If orange trees grew all over the country, you couldn't sell oranges.  Do you understand that?  So, all our decision making is based upon scarcity or the availability of resources.  If we have a shortage of any kind of resource, we put all the labs to work on making substitute materials.  People always worry about 'What if we run out of a certain material?', but we have enough technology today to make thousands of different substitutes.

  Jacque Fresco

  Running, Country, Technology

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• More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

  Hyman Rickover

  Ambition, Limits, Common

  Hyman Rickover's address to US Naval Postgraduate School, March 16, 1954.

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• Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Motivation, Rewards, Management

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• Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Being Thankful, Acquisition, World

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 29 May 1988

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• No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Art, Poet, Spoken Word

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• Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented.

  Henry F. Ashurst

  Silence, Brain, Silence Is

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• Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ... created a substitute for a sunset, a grove of pines, the music of the winds, the dank smell of the deep forest, or the shy beauty of a wildflower.

  Harvey Broome

  Pain, Sunset, Men

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• The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

  Carl Bernstein

  Missing, Quality, News

  "The failures of the press". The Guardian, June 3, 1992.

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• If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

  John Cage

  Music, Meaningful, Organization

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

  Paul Weyrich

  Teacher, Parent, Cameras

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• My plea to the Body of Christ is while we must do all we can to meet the needs of the suffering and dying millions, we must not see these activities as a substitute for evangelism and establishing churches among the unreached.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Suffering, Dying, Church

  K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Come, Let's Reach the World: Partnership in Church Planting Among the Most Unreached”, Gfa Books

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• Without Holy Spirit boldness, the world will remain unevangelized... there can never be a substitute for the power of the Spirit working through willing men and women, and that power will bring boldness.

  George Verwer

  Men, World, Spirit

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• Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t think the show demonstrates that. I think it is about gunboat diplomacy. In the final analysis, the Enterprise fires. They’re always shooting and bringing civilization, and coming to worlds where they don’t approve of tyrannical enterprises – no pun intended – and they substitute their own quote unquote enlightened version of how society is supposed to work, which is essentially American.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Men, Thinking, Fire

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• The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.

  Neil Cross

  Men, Fake, Way

  "Neil Cross: 'I don't get on with novelists'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.

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• Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity. It is a ceaseless process, as constant as the turning of the earth on its axis. Man can neither duplicate nor imitate nor provide a substitute for the process. All schools of healing are frauds.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Art, Healing, School

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• Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Needs, Libertarian, Action

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

  Peter Drucker

  Time, Unique, Yesterday

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• Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

  Stephen Covey

  Learning, Priorities, Time Management

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, Simon and Schuster

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• Failing is a judgment that we humans place on a given action. Rather than judgment, substitute this attitude: You cannot fail, you can only produce results.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivation, Attitude, Action

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