Substitute Quotes
661 Substitute quotes by 507 unique authors
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Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented.
— Henry F. Ashurst
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Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ... created a substitute…
— Harvey Broome
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The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness…
— Carl Bernstein
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If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
— John Cage
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Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.
— Paul Weyrich
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My plea to the Body of Christ is while we must do all we can to meet the needs of the suffering and dying millions,…
— K.P. Yohannan
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Without Holy Spirit boldness, the world will remain unevangelized... there can never be a substitute for the power of the Spirit working through willing men…
— George Verwer
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Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t think the show demonstrates that.…
— Nicholas Meyer
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Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation,…
— Herbert M. Shelton
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A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are…
— Herbert M. Shelton
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The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance
— Ahmed Yassin
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First,…
— L. Tom Perry
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The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should be judged by…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live in institutions. It…
— Rajneesh
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Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an…
— Ludwig von Mises
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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not…
— Peter Drucker
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Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
— Stephen Covey
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There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning.
— John Wooden
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There is no substitute for hard work. If you're looking for the easy way, if you're looking for the trick, you might get by for…
— John Wooden
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A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones…
— George V. Higgins
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There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity. If…
— Leslie Lamport
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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
— Marianne Moore
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No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes.
— Myles Munroe
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Voting is no substitute for the eternal vigilance that every friend of freedom must demonstrate towards government. If our freedom is to survive, Americans must…
— James Bovard
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