Quotes with substitute

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  • George Santayana Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Warren Buffett A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Bess Myerson All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • Ben Shahn Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Rush Limbaugh Compassion is no substitute for justice.
    Rush Limbaugh
    American radio talk show host (1951 - 2021)
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  • Russell Lynes Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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  • Charles Dickens Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Vikram Seth For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Charles Lamb For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Fran Lebowitz Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Christopher Hampton I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Adolf Galland I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Adam Savage I reject your reality and substitute my own.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • James A. Garfield If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Henri Lefebvre In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.
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  • Thomas Jefferson In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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