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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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• 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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• 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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• There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.

  David Foster Wallace

  Reform, Dialect, Facts

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• Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as Priest. . . . For that reason alone The Priesthood of Christ is worth all the time it takes to read it with humility, care, and reflection.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Stress, Humility, Reflection

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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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• 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 Courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they should be disposed to exercise will instead of judgement; the consequences would be the substitution of their pleasure for that of the legislative body.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Exercise, Law, Judgement

  The Federalist Papers, No. 78 ("The Judiciary Department"), www.congress.gov. May 28, 1788.

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• Christ said "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" and when asked "who is thy neighbour? went on to the parable of the Good Samaritan. If you wish to understand this parable as it was understood by his hearers, you should substitute "Germans and Japanese" for Samaritan. I fear my modern day Christians would resent such a substitution, because it would compel them to realize how far they have departed from the teachings of the founder of their religion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Teaching, Departed

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• To mystify, in the active sense, is to befuddle, cloud, obscure, mask whatever is going on, whether this be experience, action, or process, or whatever is "the issue." It induces confusion in the sense that there is failure to see what is "really" being experienced, or being done, or going on, and failure to distinguish or discriminate the actual issues. This entails the substitution of false for true constructions of what is being experienced, being done (praxis), or going on (process), and the substitution of false issues for the actual issues.

  R. D. Laing

  Clouds, Issues, Confusion

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• Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

  Eric Hoffer

  Humility, Pride, Renunciation

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which God Himself undertakes on our behalf.

  Karl Barth

  Behalf, Position, Eternal

  Karl Barth, Geoffrey William Bromiley, Thomas Forsyth Torrance (2004). “Church Dogmatics”, p.399, A&C Black

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• It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Country, Thinking, Japan

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• I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Trying, Cursing, Feels

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• I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.

  Charlize Theron

  Thinking, Acting, Huge

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• Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side with the old, but the substitution of the new views for the old.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Views, Progress, Sides

  Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, V. I. Lenin (1927). “Collected works of V. I. Lenin”

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• The sufferings and death of Jesus Christ are a substitution for the endless punishment of all who truly believe on Him.

  Nehemiah Adams

  Jesus, Believe, Punishment

  Nehemiah Adams (1861). “Evenings with the doctrines”, p.201

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• The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Flesh, Peculiar, Extravagance

  "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 8, Holy Dread, p. 211), 1989.

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• It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent.

  Paul A. Baran

  Causes, United States, Investment

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.88, NYU Press

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• Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

  Chuck Norris

  Sports, Country, Track

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• If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term to every historically determined institution. Then the fact that the British speak English - and not Danish, German, or French - is a barbarous relic too, and every Briton who opposes the substitution of Esperanto for English is no less dogmatic and orthodox than those who do not wax rapturous about the plans for a managed currency.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Speak English, Gold, Facts

  "The Gold Standard". Excerpt from chapter 17 of "Human Action, The Scholar's Edition", book by Ludwig von Mises, mises.org. 1949.

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• We are entering a world where there won't be one but two realities, just like we have two eyes or hear bass and treble tones, just like we now have stereoscopy and stereophony: there will be two realities: the actual, and the virtual. Thus there is no simulation, but substitution. Reality has become symmetrical. The splitting of reality in two parts is a considerable event which goes far beyond simulation.

  Paul Virilio

  Eye, Reality, Two

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The goal of feminist spirituality has never been the simple substitution of Yahweh-with-a-skirt. Rather, it seeks, in all its diversity, to revitalize relational, body-honoring, cosmologically grounded spiritual possibilities for women and all others.

  Charlene Spretnak

  Spiritual, Simple, Diversity

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• Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Thinking, Names, Political

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes.

  George Perle

  Class, Tone, Twelve

  "The Listening Composer". Book by George Perle, p. 98, 1990.

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