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• If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.

  Tom Waits

  Play, Sound, Cracks

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2006.

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• To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

  Smiley Blanton

  Happiness, Failure, Acting

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• The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation of writing skills and reading comprehension; an alarming increase of packaged language (cliches used in speeches, canned messages); and a general tendency to substitute visual media (especially television and video) for written language.

  Mihai Nadin

  Reading, Writing, Media

  Mihai Nadin (1997). “The Civilization of Illiteracy”, p.17, Dresden University Press

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• I never really liked meat. I was a child that had to be forced to eat my meat. Whatever you ate before that you loved like turkey slices they've got a substitute now that's not hard to find.

  Masta Killa

  Children, Turkeys, Meat

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• Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Motivation, Rewards, Management

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

  James Smith McDonnell

  War, Future, Creativity

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• With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

  Andy Grove

  Business, Luck, Microsoft

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• We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Views

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• Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.

  Edwin Newman

  Mean, Talking, Mind

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• I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, p.5, Basic Books

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• Relevance is not a substitute for the Gospel, but an entry point for it

  Edward John Carnell

  Ministry, Relevance, Entry

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• I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

  Dalai Lama

  Men, Animal, Vegetarian Diet

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• His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.

  Richard Mitchell

  Mind, Technique, Use

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• There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.

  George A. Sheehan

  Healing, Body

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• Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind were the product of a spontaneous effort on the part of individuals; government substitutes coercion for voluntary action.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Pain, Men, Effort

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.

  Harper Lee

  Beautiful, Struggle, Language

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• Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative are the conclusions we draw there from. Whenever calculus is brought in, or higher algebra, you could take it as a warning that the operator was trying to substitute theory for experience, and usually also to give to speculation the deceptive guise of investment.

  Benjamin Graham

  Giving, Trying, Investing

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• Porsche....there is no substitute

  Ferdinand Porsche

  Porsche

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