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• You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Life, Friendship, Years

  FaceBook post by Alexander McCall Smith from Jul 15, 2011

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• All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Joy, Mind, Consciousness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.31, New World Library

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• We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith." We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups, substitute different emotions.

  Bertrand Russell

  Two, Religion, Wish

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason, transcendent being). But the church is no longer adequate as a means of affording experience of the transcendental, and of making religion real - and so art has been transformed from a means into the sole provider of religion: which means religion itself.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Real, Mean

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• I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

  Diane Sawyer

  Thinking, Listening, Literature

  Attributed in "Do: Meditations for Brides" by Ellen Sue Stern, (p. 9), 1993.

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• She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not need any other kind of creativity. Her creative urge is fulfilled. But man is in trouble: he cannot give birth to a child, he cannot have the child in his womb. He has to find a substitute, otherwise he will always feel inferior to the woman. And deep down he does feel that he is inferior. Because of that feeling of inferiority man tries to create paintings, statues, dramas, he writes poetry, novels, explores the whole scientific world of creativity.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Drama, Writing

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• A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.

  Karl Kraus

  Sex, Masturbation

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only if you are convinced that to write is something for which there is no substitute in your life. You must therefore be ambitious for your work rather than for its promotion. The good news here is that if you assign secondary importance to publishing and primary to writing itself, you will write better, and will thus increase your odds of getting publishing.

  Sydney Lea

  Crazy, Writing, Odds

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• Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  Freedom, Government, People

  Speech at Stirling, 23 Nov. 1905, in Daily News 24 Nov. 1905

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• The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Friday, Weekend, Rhythm Of Life

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• These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. There were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is no substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Inspirational, People, Giving

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? 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

  Life, Summer, Spring

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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• No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wine, Alcohol, Vineyards

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.312

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• We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.

  Steve Ballmer

  Believe, Reality, Innovation

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• A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

  Sid Grossman

  Photography, Vision, Important

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• I got into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the water boy, and then me. That is the way it worked.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Football, Boys, Games

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• The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

  Edward Abbey

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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• Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

  Russell Lynes

  Teaching, Learning, Men

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• There is no substitute for knowledge.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Knowledge

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 29 May 1988

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• There's no substitute for rolling up your sleeves and working with the people who can make a difference. They get the benefit of your participation and you gain a direct understanding of the real problems and potential solutions, which makes you a more informed giver.

  Michael Milken

  Real, Work, Differences

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• When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

  Miles Franklin

  Friendship, Real, Love Is

  Miles Franklin (1984). “The End of My Career”

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• Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Baseball, War

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• How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Party, Drunk, Lines

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• In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Victory, Total War

  Congressional Record 19 Apr. 1951, vol. 97, pt. 3, p. 4125

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• The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly destiny. It will inevitably become one of the cornerstones of man's theology, or whatever may be the future substitute for theology, and the most important external support for human ethics.

  Julian Huxley

  Science, Destiny, Men

  Julian Huxley (1957). “New Bottles for New Wine: Essays”

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