Substitute Quotes
661 Substitute quotes by 507 unique authors
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
— Fran Lebowitz
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Compassion is no substitute for justice.
— Rush Limbaugh
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
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In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.
— Harvey Mackay
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring…
— James Madison
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
— Robert McNamara
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
— Iris Murdoch
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The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in…
— Elon Musk
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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
— Bill Nye
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It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would…
— Camille Paglia
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Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
— Nancy Pelosi
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Some exfoliates have rocks in them and it makes your skin really smooth, and cat litter is a good substitute. I haven't broke out at…
— Nicole Polizzi
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There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.
— Keith Richards
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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
— John Ruskin
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
— George Santayana
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
— Adam Savage
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My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
— Paul Simon
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Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
— Lamar S. Smith
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.
— Steven Spielberg
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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