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• I've always assumed that every time a child is born, the Divine reenters the world. Okay? That's the meaning of the Christmas story. And every time that child's purity is corrupted by society, that's the meaning of the Crucifixion story. Your man Jesus stands for that child, that pure spirit, and as its surrogate, he's being born and put to death again and again, over and over, every time we inhale and exhale, not just at the vernal equinox and on the twenty-fifth of December.

  Tom Robbins

  Jesus, Children, Men

  "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates". Book by Tom Robbins, September 5, 2000.

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• The Bible is not God, nor is it a substitute for God, and to treat it as if it were God or a surrogate of God is to treat it in the very way that it itself condemns over and over again.

  Peter J. Gomes

  Way, Treats, Substitutes

  Peter J. Gomes (2009). “Good Book: Discovering The Bible's Place In Our Liv”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can only think abstractively. Thinking in a truly rational dialectic between intuition and intellect is just beyond the reach of our nation of emotionalist helots. What prevails among us truly has to be called not thinking but "thinking," a pathetic surrogate for actual thinking for the benefit of existentially or modally crippled mentalities.

  Kenny Smith

  Thinking, Years, Intuition

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• One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far.

  Mahesh Bhatt

  Taken, Smoking, Ridiculous

  "Bollywood bans on-screen smoking". www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reading, Mean, Thinking

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.35, Publishdrive

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• My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

  Olivia Williams

  Parent, Supportive, Mines

  "Olivia Williams: My family values". Interview with Maureen Patton, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2012.

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• Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Worry, Use, Want

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• One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.

  Jon Meacham

  Years, Long, Track

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• Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Real, Friendly, Way

  "The Pasteboard Past" by Witold Rybczynski, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 1997.

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• The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

  Elayne Boosler

  Mother, Jesus, Resurrection

  "How funny women fought hard for their place in the spotlight" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2012.

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• In daily practice, the word brand stands as a surrogate for the word reputation. In fact, your brand acts just like a person. When you know a person's reputation, you can predict his or her behavior. You know what that person is likely to do or say-or not do or say-in any given situation. Your brand works the same way.

  Jim Mullen

  Business, Practice, Way

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• This notion that you hear from his surrogates and his fans throughout the campaign - "Trump tells it like it is; he's a straight shooter" - that through line comes in large part because this is a man who was welcomed into people's living rooms every week for nearly a decade.

  Jennifer Pozner

  Men, People, Lines

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The colonial regime makes sure, often with the help of surrogates, that radical leaders and those honest principled intellectuals and activists who refuse to compromise their principles of independence are eliminated, so that the postcolonial regime (and especially its resources) remains accessible. The result has been a disaster for the (post)colonial world.

  Nigel Gibson

  Leader, Independence, Principles

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• The Russian myth that they broadcast to the world, and have their various surrogates in the West repeat, is that somehow the West took advantage of them, that we were mean to them. That writes out of history everything Strobe Talbott and Bill Clinton tried to do with Boris Yeltsin. Strobe Talbott leaned forward doing everything he could to help the Russians, and frankly, I have little patience for the notion that we gave them nothing but bad advice.

  Daniel Fried

  Writing, Mean, Advice

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.

  Justin Timberlake

  Teacher, Home, Responsibility

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness.

  Martin J. Whitman

  Investing, Elements, Poor

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• Surrogate fathers and other male figures stepped in to give guidance after my dad died. Businessmen taught me to honor my commitments; others gave me opportunities beyond my wildest imaginations. Authors and speakers set good, solid examples of high standards and lofty goals for me; mature, committed Christians nurtured and instructed me.

  Zig Ziglar

  Christian, Dad, Father

  Source: www.centerforfaithandwork.com

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• Life is the ultimate technology. Machine technology is a temporary surrogate for life technology. As we improve our machines they will become more organic, more biological, more like life, because life is the best technology for living.

  Kevin Kelly

  Technology, Machines, Life Is

  Kevin Kelly (1995). “Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World”, p.165, Basic Books

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• For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.

  Mike McCurry

  Religious, Kids, Political

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• Maternal mortality health is a very sensitive indicator. All you need to look at is a country's maternal mortality rate. That is a surrogate for whether the country's health system is functioning. If it works for women, I'm sure it will work for men.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Men, Needs

  "Birth of a Surgeon". "Wide Ange" with Aaron Brown, www.pbs.org. July 15, 2008.

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• Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.

  Susan Sontag

  Mass Culture, Age, Matter

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• You're free because you don't have to expose yourself, and you can go wild, and let your id completely out of its box, and nobody will see you because you're operating through a surrogate. It's an opportunity to crack open your shell, to melt down yourself, and just let yourself go. It's a form of catharsis for me.

  Wayne White

  Opportunity, Catharsis, Cracks

  "That's what art really tries to do. Just strip away all the pretense and it's trying to entertain and excite". Interview with Julie Thomson, logger.believermag.com. October 9, 2013.

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• The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.

  Lance Morrow

  Anchorman, Media, Cameras

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• Jesus would never use government surrogates to force the people to help others.

  Philip Freneau

  Jesus, Helping Others, Government

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• All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.

  Ian Anderson

  Guitar, Play, Skills

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