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• Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

  Abraham Cahan

  Reality, Other Worlds, Tangible

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

  Julia Cameron

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Julia Cameron (1998). “Blessings”, p.17, Penguin

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• As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Men, Tales

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Philip Hamilton McMillan Memorial Publication Fund (1933). “Unpublished letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: including certain letters republished from original sources”

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• Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

  Robert Crumb

  Suicide, Commitment, People

  "'When I was four, I knew I was weird'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2005.

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• I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Two, Addiction, Abuse

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• I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

  Fred Durst

  Movie, Children, Years

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• What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Dark, Men, Church

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1995). “Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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• We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Psychology, Doe, Speak

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.

  William Shakespeare

  Shadow, Deceived

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.69, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of green so bright and pure that it hurt the eyes; the rest were not a color, but a light, the substance of fire on metal, living sparks without edges. And it looked as if the forest were a spread of light boiling slowly to produce this color, the green rising in small bubbles, the condensed essence of spring. The trees met, blending over the road and the spots of sun on the ground moved with the shifting of the branches, like a conscious caress.

  Ayn Rand

  Hurt, Spring, Eye

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.480, Penguin

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• Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc

  Bryce Courtenay

  Practice, Challenges, Shadow

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• O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Heart, Dragons

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• Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically part of them. That must be why we have so much trouble returning borrowed books. It's not exactly theft (of course not, we're not thieves, what are you implying?); it's simply a slippage in ownership or, better still, a transfer of substance. That which belonged to someone else becomes mine when I look at it. And if I like what I read, naturally I'll have difficulty giving it back.

  Daniel Pennac

  Children, Book, Fall

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• So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, I Love Him, Sight

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• Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything.

  Dave Barry

  Time, Dollars, Velcro

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Turns Forty”, p.94, Ballantine Books

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• Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.

  Virginia Woolf

  Stories, Goes On, Matter

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1428, Delphi Classics

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• It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

  Audre Lorde

  Lying, Hands, Doe

  Audre Lorde (1995). “The Black Unicorn: Poems”, p.30, W. W. Norton & Company

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• This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai: if by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. his whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Morning, Heart, Calling

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.49, Bottom of the Hill

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• Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

  William Shakespeare

  Flying, Shadow, Pursue

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie (1805). “The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.71

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• The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Keys, Doors, Hands

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• Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

  Victor Hugo

  Depth, Useless, Misery

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.798, Modern Library

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• In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms, but not in its substance. And a deep conviction that nothing can be proven except that it be made to bleed. Virgins, bulls, men. Ultimately God himself.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Heart, Men, Great Love

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

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• Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Book, Originality, Virtue

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• If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Book, Tvs, Generations

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• I remember it all: every word, every breath, every tick of the clock . . . everything that happened is with me forever. I can never forget it. But that dosen't mean I can live it again. You can't live what's gone, you can only remember it, and memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone - like faded photographs, or a dried-up daisy chain at the back of a drawer. They have no substance. They can't take you back. Nothing can take you back. Nothing can be the same as it was. Nothing is. All I can do is tell it.

  Kevin Brooks

  Memories, Mean, Forever

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