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• Not everything," he said. "Not the important things. My kids are safe. You're safe. That's all I really care about. This" - he said motioning - "is just stuff. Most of it can be replaced. It just takes time.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Kids, Important, Safe

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• Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only measurable and testable concepts had value. But humans didn't work that way.

  James S.A. Corey

  Taken, Ideas, Important

  James S. A. Corey (2013). “Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• Since when do we let the government decide what is or isn't good for us? What the hell does Congress know about nutrition, anyway?... If the government can use force whenever something is "in our best interest" then government should force everyone to wake up at 6am every morning for calisthenics in the front yard. Fast food establishments should be torn down and replaced with bars that serve carrot juice and alfalfa sprouts, since - "it's in your best interest." This paternalistic attitude that "the government knows best" and that you are merely a helpless child is insulting and reprehensible.

  Michael Badnarik

  Morning, Children, Attitude

  "Good to Be King". Book by Michael Badnarik, 2004.

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• It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another.

  John Lennon

  Psychics, Leaving, Littles

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• All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure and not by love. ... As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols, which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.

  Pope Francis

  Block, Thinking, Self

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• The world is so possessed by the power of what is and the efforts of adjustment to it, that the adolescent's rebellion, which once fought the father because his practices contradicted his own ideology, can no longer crop up. ... Psychologically, the father is ... replaced by the world of things.

  Max Horkheimer

  Father, Practice, Effort

  "The Essential Frankfurt School Reader" by Max Horkheimer, (pp. 41-42), 1982.

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• If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48 hours, and replaced by reruns of the 'Donna Reed Show', there would not be one less death in South Central LA. At most you'd have several more incidents of people shooting out their TVs.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Air, People, Television

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• Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Art, Form, Being Content

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• I don't want children anyway,' Caz says. 'So I'm getting nothing out of this whatsoever. I want my entire reproductive system taken out, and replaced with spare lungs, for when I start smoking. I want that option. This is pointless.

  Caitlin Moran

  Children, Taken, Smoking

  Caitlin Moran (2012). “How to Be a Woman”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• When one historical period is replaced by another, there is
  always a group of people left over from the old society

  Henning Mankell

  People, Historical, Groups

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Dec 11, 2012

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• So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Individuality, Needs, Individualism

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• In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, World, Devotion

  "What art museums should learn from Christianity". Article by Alain de Botton, www.abc.net.au. February 22, 2012.

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• A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she's quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs a cane to walk to the stage.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hair, Years, Volunteer

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.150, Scholastic

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• The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Focus, Longing, Crosses

  Tread Softly (1966) p. 46

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• You called me at four thirty-four....I hate four thirty-four. I think four thirty-four should be banned and replaced with something more reasonable, like, say, nine twelve.

  Darynda Jones

  Hate, Thinking, Twelve

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.17, Macmillan

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• I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

  Patti Smith

  Loneliness, Space, Understood

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.40, A&C Black

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• Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Keys, Balance, Trying

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• Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.

  Richard Carlson

  People, Needs, Attention

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another.

  Irving Townsend

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.

  Wes Fesler

  Revenge, Fleeting, Affliction

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• 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 an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Children, War, Drinking

  William Randolph Hearst (1952). “William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words”

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• An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Sports, Simple

  Phil Jackson (2005). “The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul”, Penguin Group USA

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• You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Frustration, Gun

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• Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself.

  Clarence H. Burns

  Art, History Repeats Itself, Repeating History

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• From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.

  George Sarton

  Views, Essence, Achievement

  George Sarton (1964). “A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”

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