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• When I put some Tabasco on things, and there's really nothing in Tabasco, it's not bad for you in any way, so that's kind of become my substitute. Now you got to get used to a hot mouth, but that's okay.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Hot, Mouths

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• Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

  Agnes Repplier

  Speech, Phrases, Accepted

  Agnes Repplier (1936). “In Pursuit of Laughter ...”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

  Max Frisch

  Technology, Race, White

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• Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.

  Dorothy Parker

  Dirty, Mean, Ivory

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• Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

  Mason Cooley

  Creativity, Competence

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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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• Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

  J. B. Priestley

  Writing, Hair, Play

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• Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived.

  August Wilhelm von Hofmann

  Country, Blue, Japan

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• Even with God’s help there is no substitute for the hard work.

  Valentina

  Hard Work, Helping, Hard

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• Nutritional supplements are not a substitute for a nutritionally balanced diet.

  Deepak Chopra

  Supplements, Balanced Diet, Diets

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• Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born - and people want it because it is brilliant. It ends up in museums anyway; the rich have to give it back to the people, it's their only option. There are no pockets in a shroud.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Museums, People

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• If you are always waiting to be, do, or have what you want, your energy becomes blocked. Your body may reflect this in excess weight or other physical problems. Express yourself directly. Set clear boundaries with other people and do what you need to do to take good care of yourself. Energy will then move freely through your body and this circulation will dissolve any excess weight. The more you are willing to be yourself, the less you'll need to use food as a substitute nurturer. You will be receiving the natural nurturing of the universe.

  Shakti Gawain

  Being Yourself, Moving, People

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• No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impassable frontier between him and me, which is drawn by free will, becomes most obvious. I may not want that which he wants me to want - and in this precisely I am incommunicabilis. I am, and I must be, independent in my actions. All human relationships are posited on this fact.

  Pope John Paul II

  Independent, Doe, May

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• If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reality, Vain, Made

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.79, Yale University Press

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• I barely trust established sources of information. I have a hard time finding [Wikipedia], an encyclopedia that anyone can alter, to be a safe way to learn about anything except how many idiots think their opinions are a suitable substitute for facts.

  R. K. Milholland

  Hard Times, Thinking, Wikipedia

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• Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

  James Mackintosh

  Mind, Language, Praise

  Sir James Mackintosh (1851). “The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Complete in One Volume”, p.95

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• Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

  Josh Billings

  Silence, Kind, Argument

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• I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word "bullshit" earnings.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Bullshit, Saws

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• Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.

  Gary A. Klein

  Communication, Creativity, Imagination

  Gary A. Klein (2017). “Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions”, p.269, MIT Press

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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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• The vast carnival of cruelty called animal exploitation goes on and on - and it is all so needless, even counter-productive. There is already an adequate (often superior) non-animal substitute for virtually everything obtained by animal suffering and slaughter.

  H. Jay Dinshah

  Animal, Suffering, Goes On

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• Jesus never tried to hide his loneliness and dependence on other people. He chose his disciples not as servants but as friends. He shared moments of joy and grief with them, and asked for them in times of need. They became his family, his substitute mother and brothers and sisters. They gave up everything for him, as he had given up everything for them. He loved them, plain and simple.

  Philip Yancey

  Mother, Brother, Jesus

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• The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.

  Frank Leahy

  Football, Player, Games

  Frank Leahy (1949). “Notre Dame Football: The T Formation”

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• There are no shortcuts. If you feel good, you'll look good, you'll play good. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there's no substitute for hard work.

  Hope Solo

  Hard Work, Play, Feel Good

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• One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.

  Linda Dillow

  Mistake, Common, Activity

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