Quotes with substitute

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• The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

  Bill Nye
  American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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• The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

  Reinhold Niebuhr
  American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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• The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

  Norman O. Brown
  American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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• The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

  Anthony Burgess
  British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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• The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

  John Ruskin
  English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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• There is no substitute for hard work.

  Thomas Alva Edison
  American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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• There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.

  Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

  Iris Murdoch
  Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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• There is no substitute for victory.

  Douglas Macarthur
  American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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• There's no substitute for guts.

  Bear Bryant
  American football player and coach (1913 - 1983)
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• Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

  Robert Runcie
   
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• Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

  Arthur Erickson
  Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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• Using clichés is a substitute for thinking.

  George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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• We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
  

  T. S. Eliot
  British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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• We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

  Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (2004 edition), Kessinger Publishing

  Calvin Coolidge
  American president (1872 - 1933)
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• What of Art?
  - It is a malady.
  Love?
  - An Illusion.
  Religion?
  - The fashionable substitute for Belief.
  You are a sceptic.
  - Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
  What are you?
  - To define is to limit.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

  Bernard Malamud
  American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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• Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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• Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• taken-for-granted
• relationship
• entrepreneur
• architecture
• insurrection
• unsuccessful

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