Substitutes Quotes
647 Substitutes quotes by 488 unique authors
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Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium,…
— Walter Cronkite
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I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something…
— Rachel Carson
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Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire…
— Brené Brown
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Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical,…
— Henry Adams
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What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It…
— Henri Nouwen
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When you feel the rise of unpleasant emotions, take a moment and make an effort to identify their source. The answers are far more available…
— Jane Roberts
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Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which…
— Miroslav Volf
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The Bible is not God, nor is it a substitute for God, and to treat it as if it were God or a surrogate of…
— Peter J. Gomes
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We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.
— William Morley Punshon
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You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.
— Susan Neiman
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Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
— Oswald Chambers
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.
— William Hazlitt
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We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
— Jimmy Carter
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There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.
— Thomas Friedman
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I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work…
— Neil Gaiman
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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
— James A. Garfield
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Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
— Brian Greene
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Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.
— Edwin Louis Cole
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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the…
— Calvin Coolidge
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their…
— James F. Cooper
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