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• The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of science was the age of Pericles, and the endeavour to substitute certain truth for the prescriptions of impaired authorities, which was then beginning to absorb the energies of the Greek intellect, is the grandest movement in the profane annals of mankind, for to it we owe, even after the immeasurable progress accomplished by Christianity, much of our philosophy and far the better part of the political knowledge we possess.

  Lord Acton

  Philosophy, Light, Political

  Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom: Great Event”, p.7, VM eBooks

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• Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the moment.' A question of the moment is, indeed, a substitute for some notion, such as the idea of God, or hereditary monarchy, or national glory, that has hitherto acted as a symbol of human co-ordination. It provides no new positive certainty to replace the discredited certainty, but is what the name implies: the raising of a question which the old certainty no longer answers.

  Laura Riding

  Names, Ideas, Two

  "Poetry and Politics". "The Common Asphodel". Book by Robert Graves, 1949.

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• Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.

  Semir Zeki

  Artist, Reality, Brain

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• To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

  Hannes Alfven

  Drama, Writing, Ignorance

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• I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

  Christopher Hampton

  Class, Decadence, Sophistication

  Christopher Hampton (2014). “Christopher Hampton Plays 1: Total Eclipse; The Philanthropist; Savages; Treats”, p.120, Faber & Faber

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• All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

  Bess Myerson

  Mother, Home, Men

  "As American As Cheesecake" by Ellen Goodman, www.nytimes.com. November 15, 1987.

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• There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is instinctly felt by an audience and is reflected in the superiority of his work

  Paul LePaul

  Artist, Skills, Fields

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• When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

  George Eliot

  Life, Clouds, Imagination

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.259

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• Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.

  George Santayana

  Confused, Lying, Competition

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

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• The substitute for knowledge is money.

  Gordon Bethune

  "The Do's and Don't's of Collecting High-End Watches" by Robert Frank, www.cnbc.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

  William Cowper

  Genius, Authorship, Wit

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham (1835). “The works ¬of William Cowper: Poems : with an essay on the genius and poetry of Cowper”, p.19

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• Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

  Bertrand Russell

  Good Life, Heart, Virtue

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Icarus; or, the Future of Science”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Attitude, Men

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• In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Plato, Writing, Media

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• Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it is the secret spring and indispensable ally of all true work.

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Prayer, Spring, Secret

  George Arthur Buttrick (1934). “The Christian Fact and Modern Doubt: A Preface to a Restatement of Christian Faith”

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• Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

  George Santayana

  Prayer, Effort, Range

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.132, 谷月社

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• A few little flowers will spring up briefly in the dry gulley through which torrents of water pass occasionally. But it is steady streams that bring thick and needed crops. In the agriculture of the soul that has to do with nurturing attributes, flash floods are no substitute for regular irrigation.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spring, Flower, Agriculture

  "Notwithstanding My Weakness". Book by Neal A. Maxwell, pg. 7, 1981.

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• The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Men, Law

  "Address at the Unveiling of the Equestrian Statue of Bishop Francis Asbury, Washington, DC". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 15, 1924.

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• The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

  Patti Page

  Ingenuity, Cleverness

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• The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

  Georgia Harkness

  Religion, May, Danger

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• The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Mean, Goal, Use

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• Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Passion, Thinking, People

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• ... law is a substitute for love.

  Helen McCloy

  Law

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• Tis ever thus when favours are denied;
  All had been granted but the thing we beg:
  And still some great unlikely substitute--
  Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good--
  Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.

  Joanna Baillie

  Soul, Favors, Rooms

  Joanna Baillie (1806). “A series of plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind: each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy”, p.98

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• Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canaary as a substitute for a husband.

  Stella Benson

  Mother, Husband, Son

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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