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• Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

  Dee Hock

  Ephemeral, Form, Endure

  "Dee Hock on Management" by M. Mitchell Waldrop, www.fastcompany.com. October 31, 1996.

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• I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

  Ralph Ellison

  Men, People, Black History

  Invisible Man prologue (1952)

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• Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

  Francis Bacon

  Lying, Deceit, Opinion

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.538

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• I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

  Ralph Ellison

  People, Black History, African American

  Invisible Man prologue (1952)

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• My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

  Franz Kafka

  Fear, Fearless

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• Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Fire, Time Management, Tigers

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952”

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• To the extent to which the pull that moves me really is irresistible, like an invincibly strong addiction, the normal procedures of evaluation, deliberation, choice, decision, etc. that constitute the substance of our political life are not operating. The same is true of overwhelming aversion. The person being tortured who simply wants it to stop, period, is also not a good model for an agent acting politically.

  Raymond Geuss

  Strong, Moving, Addiction

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

  Robert South

  Heart, Iron, Guilt

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• Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Ideas, Values

  Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The Progress of a Biographer”

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• Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

  Mark McGwire

  Use, Illegal, Steroid

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Faith, Drama, Book

  "The World's First Love".

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• We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

  William Saroyan

  Congratulations, Wisdom Experience, Sobriety

  "My Heart's in the Highlands". Book by William Saroyan, 1939.

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• Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Shadow, Twenties

  William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.68

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• Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Time, Fall, Apples

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Dream, Time, Lying

  'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Man of Letters'

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• The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wine, Soul

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• To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Tissues, Habit

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Character, Reality

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• The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is no space. This shows the value of non-action. Teaching without words, performing without actions: that is the Master's way.

  Laozi

  Teaching, Space, Overcoming

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• Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.

  Hippocrates

  Men, Body, Way

  Hippocrates (1950). “The Medical works of Hippocrates: a new translation from the original Greek made especially for English readers”

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• As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance.

  Sean William Scott

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• A Not So Big House feels more spacious than many of its oversized neighbors because it is space with substance, all of it in use every day.

  Sarah Susanka

  Space, House, Neighbor

  Sarah Susanka, Grey Crawford (2002). “Creating the Not So Big House: Insights and Ideas for the New American Home”, p.9, Taunton Press

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• And as for baby-boomer parents cluck-clucking about illegal substances, ah, gimme a break. Still, I think I'll pass on the rave. But more power to 'em, I say.

  Ken Wilber

  Baby, Thinking, Parent

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Silence, Solitude

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.373, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

  Charles Stanley

  Belief, Behavior

  Charles F. Stanley (2003). “Discover Your Destiny”, p.221, Thomas Nelson Inc

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