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• The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

  Bill Nye

  Media, Discipline, Information

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• It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

  Camille Paglia

  Recovery, Europe, Ideas

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• Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Nice, Action, Bipartisan

  "What's Next: Finance Bill?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 27, 2010.

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• There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

  Keith Richards

  Together, Band

  "Excerpt: New book chronicles Keith Richards interviews". Interview with Whitney Matheson, www.usatoday.com. September 09, 2013.

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• Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Political, Politics, Action

  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 work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

  John Ruskin

  Science, Facts, Appearance

  Stones of Venice Vol. III, Ch. II

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• Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

  George Santayana

  Religion, Advertising, Argument

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as the African American athlete who was rebellious: Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron... He was accepted in golf clubs that were very tony.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Athlete, Golf, Men

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• IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral part of a well-rounded life, including a daily regimen of rigorous physical exercise, rewarding personal relationships, and sensible low-fat diet. A book should not be used a as a substitute or an excuse.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Reading, Exercise

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• We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure Love. Love without compromise or distraction.

  Barry Lyga

  Real, Kids, Love Is

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.386, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

  Thomas Sowell

  Reality, Rhetoric

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• Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Passion, Ballet

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• Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

  George Eliot

  Self, Simplicity, Consciousness

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• There's just no substitute for the truth.

  Dan Brown

  Dan Brown (2002). “Deception Point”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

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• I had learned that there were substitutes for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You could find love with other people. You could find it in places you weren't even looking. But the original wound would never heal. I would carry it with me forever, and so would Tara. That was the trick . . . accepting it, going on with your life, knowing it was part of you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mother, Knowing, People

  Lisa Kleypas (2017). “The Travis Family, The Complete Series: Blue Eyed Devil, Smooth Talking Stranger, Sugar Daddy, and Brown-Eyed Girl”, p.345, Macmillan

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• Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.

  Ellis Peters

  May, Bitter, Cases

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• Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

  David Mitchell

  War, Views, Long

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.443, Random House Group

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• Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Coward, Human Nature, Virtue

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (1998). “A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography”, p.238, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Stopping, Action, Truth Is

  Charles R. Swindoll (1993). “Strike the Original Match”, p.73, Zondervan

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• He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. While he gropingly forms his own life in the frail image of a true existence, he should never forget its frailty, nor how little the image is a substitute for true life. Against such awareness, however, pulls the momentum of the bourgeois within him.

  Theodor Adorno

  Running, Believe, Risk

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Art, Ordinary

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.91, Zondervan

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• Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Relationship, Book, Female

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.133, Penguin

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• Ice is most welcome in a cold drink on a hot day. But in the heart of winter, you want a warm hot mug with your favorite soothing brew to keep the chill away. When you don’t have anything warm at hand, even a memory can be a small substitute. Remember a searing look of intimate eyes. Receive the inner fire.

  Vera Nazarian

  Memories, Eye, Heart

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• Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful research tool, but it will never substitute for holding the book. I feel certain that at least within my lifetime, everyone will still be going to the bookstore and buying printed books. Thank God I'll die before I have to worry about whether the printed book itself will disappear. That's something I don't want to live to see.

  Anne Fadiman

  Book, Worry, Thank God

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• Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors -- is almost as old as recorded history. It has always been a great temptation, for men of action no less than for men of thought, to find a substitute for action in the hope that the realm of human affairs may escape the haphazardness and moral irresponsibility inherent in a plurality of agents.

  Hannah Arendt

  Frustration, Men, Temptation

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