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• What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

  E. V. Lucas

  Food, Cooking, Shadow

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• Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

  Dee Hock

  Past, Form, Clothings

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• Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Attitude, Hate, Shadow

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.

  Helen Fisher

  Romantic Love, Love Is, Earth

  "What if I never get over him (or her) - you asked Google, here's the answer" by Annalisa Barbieri, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2015.

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• All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.

  Dennis McKenna

  Life, Food, Science

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• Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss.... We easily forget that we are track-markers, through, because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete--and these are substances not easily impressed.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Animal, Journey, Snow

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• The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Believe, Preparation, Eternity

  Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Works: Lectures on the Epistle to the Romans”, p.27

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• I've never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, and I never will. I've never met or spoken with Tony Bosch or used any substances provided by him. Anything said to the contrary is a lie.

  Gio Gonzalez

  Lying, Drug, Kind

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• Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Victory, Wikipedia, Process

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• Gay sexuality inevitably involves brutal physical abusiveness and the unnatural imposition of alien substances into internal organs, orally and anally, that inevitably suppress the immune system and heighten susceptibility to disease.

  Rod Parsley

  Gay, Disease, Aliens

  Rod Parsley (2005). “Silent No More”, p.74, Charisma Media

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• Thus the connection of the Father in the Son, and of the Son in the Paraclete, produces three coherent Persons, who are yet distinct One from Another. These three are one [thing], not one [Person], as it is said, 'I and my Father are One,' in respect of unity of substance not singularity of number.

  Tertullian

  Father, Son, Numbers

  Tertullian, Aeterna Press (2016). “Tertullian Collection [2 Books]”, p.62, Aeterna Press

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• The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.

  Daniel Odier

  Awakening, Wonder, Capacity

  Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Two, Alcohol, Drug

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• Why do I do it? Because I enjoy its effects. You know, I - why does anybody use any mind-altering substance, you know, because they like the way it makes them feel.

  Mark Stepnoski

  Marijuana, Funny Weed, Mind

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• It is beyond my comprehension that any humane person would withhold such a beneficial substance from people in such great need simply because others use it for different purposes.

  Steven Gould

  Weed, Marijuana, People

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• Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful but sometimes overwhelming, to look beyond his animal existence and not be fully satisfied with its immediate substance. He lacks the complacency of the other animals: he is obsessed by pride and guilt, pride at being something more than a mere animal, built at falling short of the high aims he sets for himself.

  Lewis Mumford

  Fall, Pride, Men

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• The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood.

  Russell Baker

  Country, Food, America

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• The dual substance of Christ - the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God. [...] has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me. [...] My principle anguish and source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh. [...] And my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Army, Men, Two

  "The Last Temptation of Christ". Book by Nikos Kazantzakis, Simon and Schuster, Prologue, 2012.

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• The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.

  Isaac Watts

  Men, Garden, Growing

  Isaac Watts, Philip Doddridge, David Jennings (1800). “The Improvement of the Mind; Or, A Supplement to The Art of Logic. In Two Parts ... Also ... Posthumous Works, Published from His Manuscript, by D. Jennings ... and P. Doddridge”, p.37

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• The upholder of the cycles which sustain all Life is water. In every drop of water dwells a deity whom indeed we all serve. There also dwells Life, the soul of the primal substance - water - whose boundaries and banks are the capillaries that guide it, and in which it circulates. Every pulse beat arising through the interaction of will and resistance is indicative of creative work and urges us to care for those vessels, those primary and most vital structures, in which throbs the product of a dualistic power - Life

  Viktor Schauberger

  Life, Nature, Water

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (1999). “The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.22, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Life, Matter, Spirituality

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• He who would prove all life, leaves it empty. To know the way of everything is to be left with the geometry of things and with the substance of nothing. To reduce the world to an equation is to leave it without head or feet.

  Leopoldo Alas

  Life, Feet, World

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• Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest, which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which underlies all things and whence all things derive their substance and draw their life.

  Dion Fortune

  Life, Sea, May

  Dion Fortune (2000). “The Esoteric Philosophy of Love and Marriage”, p.2, Weiser Books

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• Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.

  Charles Simmons

  Life, Men, Noble

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• The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

  Norman O. Brown

  Health, Exercise, Self

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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