Substitution Quotes

• There is no substitute for hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Perseverance, Morning

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• For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.

  John Stott

  Bible, God, Christian

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• Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Writing

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• If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Errors, Imagination, Incompetence

  Richard Hofstadter (2016). “The Paranoid Style in American Politics: An Essay: from The Paranoid Style in American Politics”, p.19, Vintage

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• Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Doe, Machines

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• The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.

  John Stott

  God, Christian, Friday

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, p.159, InterVarsity Press

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• The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Progress, Milestone

  Winston Churchill (1965). “Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches”

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• Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.

  Bobby Robson

  Player, England, Managers

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• If you understand football you make substitutions during the game, if you don't you make comments after it.

  Hristo Stoichkov

  Football, Games, Comment

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• Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.

  J. C. Ryle

  Satan, Subtraction, Usefulness

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• Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect.

  Howard Roberts

  Funny, Inspiring, Religious

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• Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.

  Germaine Greer

  Lust, Energy, Lechery

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.10, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Recognizing that the current form of globalization is nothing more than a generalized downward leveling in which global corporations are extracting more and more of the wealth, power, and productive energies from communities and the environment is the right approach. And knowing that in every specific battle, what we are fighting for is merely the substitution of the human agenda for the corporate agenda is what can guide and sustain us.

  Robin Hahnel

  Fighting, Knowing, Community

  "Panic Rules!: Everything You Need to Know about the Global Economy". Book by Robin Hahnel, 1999.

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• Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of election (who is saved?); the nature of the atonement (do we have to hold to penal substitution if we're Reformed?); the scope of the atonement (for whom did Christ die?); whether we have to hold to some sort of theological determinism (God ordains all that comes to pass).

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Book, Issues, Tree

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Gold Teeth, Enzymes, Crafts

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• That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs.

  Jimmy Hill

  Wise, Men, Stupidity

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• There is no substitution for hustle, and if you don't hustle there will be substitution

  Tex Winter

  Basketball, Nba, Hustle

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• Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

  Paul Theroux

  Creative, Cooking, Kitchen

  Paul Theroux (2014). “Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of.

  Brian Setzer

  Country, Song, Unique

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• The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.

  Gerry Spence

  Meaningful, Money, Lying

  Gerry Spence (2002). “Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life”, p.111, Macmillan

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• The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves. How to disappear and reappear. "How to saw people in half?" "That too." "Nice.

  Catherine Fisher

  Art, Nice, Mean

  Catherine Fisher (2010). “Sapphique”, p.184, Penguin

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• But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of convenience we understand it as a straight line. At this point, humans are the only ones who can make that sort of conceptual substitution.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mind, Shapes, Lines

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• Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Divine Wisdom, Theology, Ingenuity

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• The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith... are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely.

  Brock Chisholm

  Family, Children, Intelligent

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• Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our time and energy. We pursue pleasure or entertainment, or become very involved in associations or civic matters. Of course, people need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute, but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high. The substitutions we fashion to take the place of God in our lives truly hold no water. To the measure we thus refuse the "living water," we miss the joy we could have.

  Marion D. Hanks

  Fashion, Struggle, People

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