Substance Quotes - Page 24

• Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Air, Joy, Superhuman

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• The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows; not by clarity and substance, but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Dream, Mean

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• As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

  Mary Oliver

  Children, Reading, Alive

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• Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

  Yngwie Malmsteen

  Funny, Inspiring, Ifs

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• We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes. When they are so harmless to others or to the State as those we deal with here, the prices is not too great. But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Attitude, Heart, Order

  "West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 641-42". 1943.

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• As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Two, Creating, Goal

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man for thousands of years not only as a substance he prized and was willing to labour to obtain, but also as a generator of poetic and of mythic meaning. The contradictions it embodies only intensify its power and its links with experience of the sacred.

  Margaret Visser

  Men, Rocks, Years

  Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.75, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance.

  T. D. Jakes

  Bridges, Want

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• In Sweden, water fluoridation, to my knowledge, is no longer advocated by anybody. In Sweden, the emphasis nowadays is to keep the environment as clean as possible with regard to pharmacologically active and, thus, potentially toxic substances.

  Arvid Carlsson

  Water, Toxic, Sweden

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• Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.

  Duane Chapman

  Jobs, Imagining Yourself, Car

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with the hydrocarbons so frequently observed in volcanic eruptions and emanations, and to which M. Ch. Sainte-Claire Deville has called attention in recent years? Finally, must one assign a parralel origin to carbonaceous matter and to hydrocarbons contained in certain meteorites, and which appear to have an origin foreign to our planet? These are questions on which the opinion of many distinguished geologists does not as yet appear to be fixed.

  Marcellin Berthelot

  Years, Fuel, Matter

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• I think Chappelle set the bar when he came out with his show. To be as great as him or greater you have to push it a little further - as long as there's substance in terms of the material.

  Aries Spears

  Thinking, Long, Bars

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• A single kind of red cell is supposed to have an enormous number of different substances on it, and in the same way there are substances in the serum to react with many different animal cells. In addition, the substances which match each kind of cell are different in each kind of serum. The number of hypothetical different substances postulated makes this conception so uneconomical that the question must be asked whether it is the only one possible. ... We ourselves hold that another, simpler, explanation is possible.

  Karl Landsteiner

  Animal, Numbers, Cells

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• When music is presented which, however appropriate for other occasions, does not fit the Sabbath, much is lost. . . . The Spirit does not ratify speech nor confirm music which lacks spiritual substance.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Music, Spiritual, Doe

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• Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.

  Dick Pound

  Cheating, Team, Doctors

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• What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Opening, Penetrate

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• The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

  Laozi

  Flower, Taoism, Fruit

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• When asked Who I Am, the only answer possible is: I am the infinite, the vastness that is the substance of all things. I am no one and everyone, nothing and everything -- just as you are.

  Suzanne Segal

  Who I Am, Answers, Vastness

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• Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

  Paul Twitchell

  Space, Expression, Records

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• On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and on the other, it is from them that the community recovers the social substance with which it had nourished them, transfigured by their creative alchemy into a still higher social substance.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Hands, Two, Creative

  "Essays with a Purpose".

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• Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Temptation, Response

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• So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Art, Mean, Healing

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• Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Sick, Wells

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• The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Past, May, Waste

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• If your goals aren’t synced with the substance of your heart, then achieving them won’t matter much.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Heart, Goal, Inspire

  FaceBook post by Danielle LaPorte from Apr 27, 2012

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