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Substitutes Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.
- In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and…
- Passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.
- Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary…
- The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by…
- Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
- Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
More Substitutes Quotes
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- The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly… — Julian Huxley
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- There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. — Mary Ellen Chase
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- The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step… — Henry David Thoreau