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• Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Action, Poor, Rhetoric

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The first thing to remember: There's no substitute for cold steel. They do not like it up 'em, they DON'T LIKE IT UP 'EM

  Jack Jones

  Firsts, Steel, Ems

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• Liquor is such a nice substitute for facing adult life.

  Dorothy B. Hughes

  Nice, Drinking, Adults

  Dorothy B. Hughes (2017). “In a Lonely Place”, p.102, New York Review of Books

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• There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

  Charles Dickens

  Sincere, Ardent, Earnestness

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4820, Delphi Classics

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• Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blessed, Dark, Doors

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.74

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• Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Taste, Tongue

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.107

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• Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Abuse, Criticism, Panic

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• Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.

  John Sterling

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Reality

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.127

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• My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Elizabeth Bowen, Allan Hepburn (2010). “Listening in: Broadcasts, Speeches, and Interviews by Elizabeth Bowen”, p.3, Edinburgh University Press

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• The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Ideas, Disrespect, Authority

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

  Agnes Repplier

  Envy, Purpose, Good Work

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• Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

  Bernard Malamud

  People, Style, Stories

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• Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

  Wallace Shawn

  Sleep, Insomnia, Bedtime

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• My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time.

  Wilder Penfield

  Children, Giving, Parent

  Wilder Penfield, Lamar Roberts (2014). “Speech and Brain Mechanisms”, p.257, Princeton University Press

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• The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.

  Lyman Bryson

  Believe, Errors, Age

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• Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top.

  Frank Robinson

  Basketball, Practice, Trying

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• Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Christian, Christianity, Christ

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• There's no substitute for guts.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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• Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.

  Ellen G. White

  Dying, Legacy, Miserable

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• Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to be there or not, science has put us in the position of having to live without foundations. It was shocking when Nietzsche said this, but today it is commonplace; our historical position-and no end to it is in sight-is that of having to philosophise without 'foundations'.

  Hilary Putnam

  Science, Sight, Historical

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• The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Compromise, Easier

  Carl Gustav Jung (1989). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion”

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• Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the direct intervention of the Supreme Cause, must simply be considered as an avowal that we deem the question to lie beyond the domain of science.

  Charles Lyell

  Lying, Independent, Science

  Charles Lyell (1863). “The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man with Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation by Charles Lyell”, p.421

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• Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

  Joseph Addison

  Health, Exercise, Science

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.64

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• All men like to think that they can do it alone, but a real man knows that there no substitute for support , encouragement or a pit crew.

  Tim Allen

  Encouragement, Real, Wrestling

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• Any work of art represents a series of conscious choices on the part of the artist - what color to paint, what note to play, what word to use - in that artist's attempt to share what is in his or her soul. The audience is free to accept or reject those choices; it is emphatically not free to substitute its own.

  Leonard Pitts

  Art, Color, Play

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