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• When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment

  Roger Scruton

  Gratitude, Rights, Resentment

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• To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Mammals, Dinosaurs, Ancestor

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• Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs.

  Steve Kroft

  Bridges, People, Needs

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.

  Douglas Coupland

  Believe, Numbness, People

  "Girlfriend in a Coma". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1998.

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• As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

  George Bernard Shaw

  School, Men, Editors

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• The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.

  James Frey

  Air, Cities, Pollution Control

  James Frey (2008). “Bright Shiny Morning”, p.292, Hachette UK

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• Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Order, Years, Two

  Nawal El Saadawi (2013). “Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi”, p.108, Zed Books Ltd.

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• Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life.

  Allan Bloom

  Prayer, Ephemeral, Daily Life

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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• There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about letters. They do not arrive often enough. A letter which has been passionately awaited should be immediately supplemented by another one, to counteract the feeling of flatness that comes upon us when the agonizing delights of anticipation have been replaced by the colder flood of fulfilment.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Feelings, Delight, Agonizing

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• I have a whole system down for returning online shopping: a tape gun, a printer for return labels. That has replaced traditional window shopping in my life, as I've gotten busier.

  Mindy Kaling

  Gun, Window Shopping, Tape

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling Dishes On Fashion, Beauty, And Hollywood!". Interview with Kate Mulling, www.refinery29.com. October 13, 2011.

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• When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Mind, Way

  "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 1997.

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• The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

  Lionel Shriver

  Seductive, Television, Killers

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• All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be replaced by something more responsive, more just, and more democratic. Marx said this, and so did Jefferson. It is a revolutionary doctrine, and very much an American one.

  Michael Parenti

  People, Political, Doctrine

  Michael Parenti (2010). “Democracy for the Few”, p.286, Cengage Learning

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• Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.

  Margaret Mead

  Behavior, Given, Learned Behavior

  "Male and Female". Study by Margaret Mead, 1949.

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• As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Feelings, Teeth

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• Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people's earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive

  Steve Aylett

  Dog, Punishment, Knowing

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• Tom Carnegie will never be replaced.

  Mario Andretti

  Carnegie, Toms

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• Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals - they pollute the environment; you don't want them around your children.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Taken, Class

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• Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in terms of heredity, whether it be of race, or sex, or class. Every social institution which teaches human beings to cringe to those above and step on those below must be replaced by institutions which teach people to look each other straight in the face.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Equality, Race

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.161, Berghahn Books

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• One of the common traits of outstanding performers-coaches, athletes, managers, sales representatives, executives, and others who face a daily up/down, win/lose accounting system-is that a rejection, that is, defeat, is quickly forgotten, replaced eagerly by pursuit of a new order, client, or opponent.

  Bill Walsh

  Athlete, Winning, Order

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.256, Penguin

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• The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture is African and magic, and the purposes of magic are control and power. . . Voodoo or magic was the religion and life of American Negroes. Voodoo songs underlie jazz, and old voodoo, with its power goal, has been merely replaced with revolutionary voodoo, a modernized power drive.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Song, Rights, Goal

  "The Institutes of Biblical Law". Book by R.J. Rushdoony, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

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• Every bit of you has been replaced many times over... The point is that you are like a cloud: something that persists over long periods, whilst simultaneously being in flux. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made.

  Steve Grand

  Clouds, Long, Together

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• In the final analysis, each of us is responsible for what we are. We cannot blame it on our mothers, who, thanks to Freud, have replaced money as the root of all evil.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Mother, Roots, Evil

  Helen Lawrenson (1975). “Stranger at the party: a memoir”, Random House (NY)

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• Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

  Jennifer Stone

  Greed, Grace, Culture

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.

  James Hollis

  Black And White, Journey, Today

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