Substitute Quotes
661 Substitute quotes by 507 unique authors
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We have never found, and I think we never shall find, an adequate substitute for the situation in which two wholesome young men meet with…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?
— Ward Churchill
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No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as…
— Paul Gallico
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People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own…
— Ludwig von Mises
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If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the…
— Richard Hofstadter
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What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that…
— Edward Albee
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Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension.
— Unknown Author
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We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Prayer is never an acceptable substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering from His creatures that is not accompanied by obedience. To pray…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the…
— Tom Robbins
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Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.
— Unknown Author
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When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is…
— Florence Nightingale
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The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There…
— Unknown Author
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The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.
— Unknown Author
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Formatting is no substitute for writing.
— Leslie Lamport
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Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do…
— Ayn Rand
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I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It’s certainly…
— Deborah Eisenberg
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Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you…
— Rosser Reeves
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Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds
— Elfriede Jelinek
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Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised
— Dick Durbin
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The professional dedicates himself to mastering technique not because he believes technique is a substitute for inspiration but because he wants to be in possession…
— Steven Pressfield
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The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked to death than…
— Robert S. Johnson
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You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.
— Fred Thompson
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In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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