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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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• I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will - and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Atheist, People, Effort

  "In His Name". Book by E. Christopher Reyes, p. 39, 2010.

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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. As long as I am my mind, I am those cravings, those needs, wants, attachments, and aversions, and apart from them there is no "I" except as a mere possibility, an unfulfilled potential, a seed that has not yet sprouted.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Happiness, Spiritual, Thinking

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

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• I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international sports and I suppose motorcycle races-to encourage the secretion of the adrenal glands!

  James McKeen Cattell

  Sports, War, Night

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• Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Mean, Europe

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• Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work. Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons. Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Prayer, Men

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.66, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.

  Steve Martin

  Inspirational, Funny, Perseverance

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• We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.

  Sigmund Freud

  Change, Grief, Loss

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• Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Sweet, Cake, Justice

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.42, University of Toronto Press

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• War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy. If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order

  Alfred Hermann Fried

  War, Order, Justice

  Alfred Hermann Fried (1918*). “International Co-operation”

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• Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which are necessary in order to discuss them. The Mole effect is to substitute slogans and superficial opinion for considered individual thought. And the opinion is that of the lowest common denominator of the group.

  Murray Rothbard

  Children, Educational, Order

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• It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conquest, and that we have joined the issue thus raised on the battlefield; that here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose the war to communism in Asia the fall of Europe is inevitable, win it and Europe most probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom. As you pointed out, we must win. There is no substitute for victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Fall, Fighting

  DOUGLAS MACARTHUR (1964). “REMINISCENCES”

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• War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Victory, Indecision

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.

  Andre Agassi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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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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• To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

  George Santayana

  Criticism, Facts, Judgment

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Happiness, Marriage, Wedding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Military, Winning

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• However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Country, Travel, Movement

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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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