Replacements Quotes
102 quotes by 95 authors
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In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and…
— David Bowie
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It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.
— Fran Tarkenton
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Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead;…
— Richard Hamming
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Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't…
— Sam Manekshaw
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A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the…
— Sri Aurobindo
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It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give existence to a…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to…
— Hilary Putnam
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My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries.…
— Nick Cassavetes
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Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are probably…
— Brian Barry
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In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy may be one…
— Richard Lindzen
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Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military…
— Chen Shui-bian
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The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. The…
— Adolf Hitler
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The journey to a different future must begin by defining the problem differently than we have done until now. . The task is not to…
— Theo Colborn
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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the…
— Salman Rushdie
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This much is certain... No initiative put in place starting today can have a substantial effect on the peak production year. No Caspian Sea exploration,…
— Kenneth S. Deffeyes
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Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of…
— Carol P. Christ
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The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem…
— Wendell Berry
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Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.
— Holly Lisle
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Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would…
— Sigmund Freud
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