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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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• You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.

  Susan Neiman

  People, Needs, May

  Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists”, p.132, Random House

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• The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.

  Winston Churchill

  Argument, Parliament, Objects

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

  Jimmy Carter

  Common Sense, Resorts, Mythology

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

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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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• You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the more contempt he attracts for his choice of substitutes in England games. Now, we haven't done the research, but my guess is that Sven's performances in the sack and that of his subs on the pitch are not correlated. So why do we link them?

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Soccer, Football, Love Life

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• There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and for him words can be dangerous unless they are examined in the light of the work. The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

  Mary Martin

  Communication, Artist, Light

  Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin (1987). “Kenneth and Mary Martin: 11 September-31 October 1987, Annely Juda Fine Art”

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• Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.

  A.J. Cronin

  God, Heart, Trying

  A. J. Cronin (2013). “Adventures in Two Worlds”, p.256, Pan Macmillan

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• Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.

  Alain de Botton

  Photography, Attention, Done

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• Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Happiness, Roots, Discovery

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• If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President and officers who have taken the oath and are under moral obligation to uphold it....they may substitute personal and arbitrary government-the first principle of the totalitarian system against which it has been alleged that World War II was waged-while giving lip service to the principle of constitutional government.

  Charles A. Beard

  War, Taken, America

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• Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.

  Ayn Rand

  Responsibility, Thinking, Live Your Life

  Ayn Rand (1957). “Atlas Shrugged”

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• I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion... Art's origins are natural.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Nature, Opinion

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• Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Innocence, Poor, Alas

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• Passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.

  Eric Hoffer

  Passionate, May, Intensity

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

  Eric Hoffer

  Moving, Self Confidence, Skills

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence.

  Eric Hoffer

  Frustration, Self, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

  William James

  Art, Force, Process

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• There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

  Maria Montessori

  Work, Affection, Well Being

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• Keep your mind centered on that which leads to light, intensively. Accept no substitute.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Mind

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

  Deepak Chopra

  Supplements, Balanced Diet, Diets

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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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• Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.

  Clifford Stoll

  Science, Power, Thinking

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