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• Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Gone, Inspiring Friends

  William Hazlitt (1889). “William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic: Selections from His Writings with a Memoir, Biographical and Critical”

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• I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to turn it into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls.

  Iris Murdoch

  Hate, Self, Soul

  "Under the Net".

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• Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

  Jodi Picoult

  Outcomes, Determine

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.

  Albert Camus

  War, Men, Imagination

  Albert Camus (1962). “The Plague”

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• One nourishes one's created characters with one's own substance: it's rather like the process of gestation. To give the character life, or to give him back life, it is of course necessary to fortify him by contributing something of one's own humanity, but it doesn't follow from that that the character is I, the writer, or that I am the character. The two entities remain distinct.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Character, Two, Giving

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• Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Music, Ideas, Privilege

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• Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy.

  Winifred Holtby

  Life Is Good, Equality, Men

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• Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

  Flora Lewis

  Truth, Trying, World

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• It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same substance composes us-the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star-we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child.

  P. L. Travers

  Stars, Children, Moving

  P. L. Travers (2014). “Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out of communicating coherent thought, not in sticking little flowers on speeches. Style and substance and a sense of life are the things literature is composed of. One must use one's own personality in relationship to life and language, of course, and everyone has such a relationship. Some people find it, some don't find it, but it's there.

  Marguerite Young

  Flower, People, Personality

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• I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name.

  Seishiro Itagaki

  Men, Names, Soldier

  "The Fight for the Pacific". Book by by Mark Gayn, p.157, 1941.

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• Testosterone should be a controlled substance.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Men, Should, Testosterone

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• war with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world ... An astounding panoply of toxic substances, venomous creatures, poison plants, animals and insects, deleterious environments, virulent pathogens, infectious agents, noxious gases, and combustible chemicals were marshalled to defeat foes - and panoply is an apt term here, because it is the ancient Greek word for 'all weapons.

  Adrienne Mayor

  War, Animal, History

  Adrienne Mayor (2009). “Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World”, Duckworth Publishing

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• The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Progress, World, Form

  Gertrude Atherton (2014). “The Avalanche”, p.136, The Floating Press

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• Creating everlasting works is possible only being ducked in Verity; and gaining verity is possible only from the god. The one who given the ability for creation to, it is given the ability for immortality to. This ability is the substance not only of the human beings, but it can be seen in animals; birds and insects.

  Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

  Animal, Creating, Bird

  "The Authority". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary,

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• [Race] had no substance, like a shadowy shape that terrifies in the dark but vanishes by the light of day.

  Nayantara Sahgal

  Dark, Light, Race

  Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”

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• You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, Thinking, Animal

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• There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting.

  Colin Mochrie

  Beautiful, Sexy, People

  "10 Questions: Colin Mochrie" by Ken P., www.ign.com. May 9, 2003.

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• If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

  Al Roker

  Bad Day, Self, Abuse

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• I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in the desert. It is very beautiful, until the moment when you die of thirst, obviously. But we do not die of thirst in the field of art. The mirage has substance.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Beautiful, Art, Oasis

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• If the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that there was a time when the Son was not. It therefore necessarily follows, that he had his substance from nothing.

  Arius

  Father, Son, Existence

  "Church History". Book by Socrates of Constantinople, Book I, Ch. 5,

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• our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.

  Craig L. Rice

  Deeds, Action

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• If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and energies, leaving us nothing of value to contribute to the commonwealth.

  Margery Wilson

  Taken, Self, Discipline

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