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55 quotes by 50 authors

Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing… — Alan Greenspan
Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate.… — Frantz Fanon
Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which is more an… — Herman E. Daly
The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is no historic record… — Henry Hazlitt
The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption. — Allan Bloom
Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite… — Alasdair MacIntyre
I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for… — William Randolph Hearst
The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must… — Alexander Hamilton
[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of… — Charles Edward Merriam
Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be… — Virginia Woolf
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea… — William Hazlitt
When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law. — Fredrik Bajer
It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing… — Victoria Woodhull
Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ. — John Stott
The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in… — David F. Houston
BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined. — Ambrose Bierce
Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always find,… — Vilfredo Pareto
I can't believe so much media attention is being paid to Fernando Torres and his loss of form, when the answer is staring us all… — Pepe Reina

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