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• We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material.

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Book, Science, Needs

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• The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.

  Michiko Kakutani

  Art, Redemption, Crafts

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• We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.

  William Morley Punshon

  Heart, Charity, May

  William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.208, Adam, Stevenson

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• Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, School, Curriculum

  Diane Ravitch (2011). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.118, Basic Books

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• Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.

  Steve Sailer

  Racism, Eras, Logical

  "Banned by Free Republic?". www.vdare.com. January 03, 2001.

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• In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of energy'). In all other respects little change was necessary in Darwin's theory...

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Energy, Mutation, Variation

  "What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1944.

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• The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked to death than the individual who subjects himself to battle shorn of any protection but his own skill, his own belief in himself and in his wingman. Righteousness is necessary for one's peace of mind, perhaps, but it is a poor substitute for agility . . . and a resolution to meet the enemy under any conditions and against any odds.

  Robert S. Johnson

  Men, Odds, Skills

  Robert S. Johnson, Martin Caidin “Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace”, Lulu.com

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• One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a major government-media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming the greatest threat to our existence, etc.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Media, Government

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• The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Reality, Quality

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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• Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, Feels

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.38, Penguin

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• Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

  Richard Rohr

  Firsts, Different, Common

  Richard Rohr, Andreas Ebert (2001). “The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Joy, Devil, Entertainment

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• Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you needwhen you can say, 'Thou, O Christ, art all I want.' But listen, be careful: it may strip you of everything else you have; you may lose some of your best friends who think you're fanatical; they don't mind you being kind or good, but you become holy and zealous

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Art, Thinking, Joy

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• Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition.

  Doug Scott

  Climbing, Intuition, Apprenticeship

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• In both its precepts and penalty, the law of God in its most exacting requirements was fulfilled by Jesus. And He did this in our place as our representative and our substitute.

  Jerry Bridges

  Jesus, Law, Requirements

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness”, p.36, Tyndale House

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• Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a great power. Power tends to be a substitute for judgment and wisdom.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Power, Events, Judgment

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• I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.

  Adolf Galland

  Three, Today, Driven

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• Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren't my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

  Phil McGraw

  People, Goal, Expectations

  Dr. Phil McGraw (2003). “Self Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• No advocate of reason can claim the right to force his ideas on others. No advocate of the free mind can claim the right to force the minds of others. No rational society, no co-operation, no agreement, no understanding, no discussion are possible among men who propose to substitute guns for rational persuasion.

  Ayn Rand

  Gun, Men, Ideas

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.48, Penguin

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• I wasn't allowed to play in some universities in the United States and out of twenty-five concerts, twenty-three were canceled unless I would substitute my black bass player for my old white bass player, which I wouldn't do.

  Dave Brubeck

  Player, White, Black

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• A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."

  Thomas A. Edison

  Work, Men, Discovery

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• Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is cocksure, vague and self-contradictory. The first step towards philosophy consists in becoming aware of these defects, not in order to rest content with a lazy scepticism, but in order to substitute an amended kind of knowledge which shall be tentative, precise and self-consistent.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Real, Self

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “An Outline of Philosophy”, p.2, Routledge

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• I would never have turned pro training like an average bodybuilder. There is no substitute for intensity.

  Branch Warren

  Bodybuilding, Average, Training

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• True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Fall, Opposites

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• Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

  Andre Gide

  Drunkenness

  Andre Gide (1953). “Marshlands and Prometheus Misbound”

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