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• Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

  Samuel Smiles

  Time, Business, Medicine

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.389, The Floating Press

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• There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Education, Humor

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Seventh" (radio program) (1978)

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• What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Media, Political

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("The Poet & The City"), (p. 83), 1962.

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• My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters.

  Colleen Hoover

  Real, Book, Land

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “Hopeless”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  "How Doing What You Love Serves Humanity" by Jason Mannino, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2009.

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• His lips covered hers as he laid the gauze on her leg. Fiery pain shot through her flesh as his lips swallowed her cry, then replaced it with such amazing sensation she wanted to whimper in return. He licked her lips. He didn’t steal her kiss. He didn’t take it. He cajoled it from her.

  Lora Leigh

  Pain, Kissing, Return

  Lora Leigh (2018). “Elizabeth's Wolf”, p.92, Penguin

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• Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

  Che Guevara

  Leader, Anarchy, Dictator

  "An American Savage". Book by J. Flash (Jeff Flashinski), p. 144, 2003.

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  Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

  Willie Nelson

  Life, Change, Positive

  FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Oct 29, 2013

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• True love isn’t easy, but it must be fought for. Once you find it, it can never be replaced. – Unknown

  Monica Murphy

  Love Is, Once Upon A Time, Easy

  Monica Murphy (2016). “The Drew + Fable Series 4-Book Bundle: One Week Girlfriend, Second Chance Boyfriend, Three Broken Promises, Four Years Later”, p.371, Bantam

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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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• I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Moving, Humor

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• Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

  Isaac Asimov

  Teacher, Math, Technology

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• Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

  Balthus

  Art, Painting, Language

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• We want to believe we couldn't be replaced, and that the people we love are irreplaceable.

  Heidi Julavits

  Believe, People, Want

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.

  Lisa Bonet

  Loss, Soul, Youth

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

  Terry Pratchett

  Teacher, Educational, Thinking

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• I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.

  Hugh Laurie

  Water, Gone, Tequila

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• The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

  Albert Einstein

  Mind, Superstitions, Belief

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Greed, Humanity, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, "Do I know you?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Night

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• Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Thinking, People, Literature

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• Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Success, Powerful, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, May 22, 2000.

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• When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Past, Compassion, Names

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.181, Macmillan

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• When you ride the wave, the thrill is so exhilarating that you forget everything else. You live in the moment where nothing else matters, so intent on riding the wave perfectly that you and the wave become one. Pain and worry disappear, replaced by euphoria, akin to flow. Similarly, when giving empathy, you want to strive for this kind of total presence for the person you are listening to.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Forget Everything, Giving

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