Quotes with substance

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  • John Sterling Man is a substance clad in shadows.
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Asa Gray Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Giambattista Vico Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.
    Giambattista Vico
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Franz Kafka My ''fear''... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Bradley Whitford One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Abraham Cahan Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Mary Caroline Richards Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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  • Bernard Mandeville People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Bee Wilson Protein bars, protein flapjacks, protein granola, protein ice cream and protein coconut water... To look at the health-food aisles, you'd think that protein was a substance no one could overeat. Even bread now comes in protein-enriched form.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Hegel Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational.
    Hegel
     
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  • Benny Goodman Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Albert Claude The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Norman O. Brown The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • Lord George Byron The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel The only substance properly so called is the soul.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Winston Churchill The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Harriet Martineau The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • William Shakespeare The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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