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• Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of similar composition and dissimilar properties isomeric, from the Greek ίσομερης (composed of equal parts).

  Jons Jacob Berzelius

  Science, Ideas, Greek

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• Innumerable entirely new compounds have been produced in the last century. The artificial dye-stuffs, prepared from materials occurring in coal-tar, make the natural colours blush. Saccharin, which is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, is a purely artificial substance. New explosives, drugs, alloys, photographic substances, essences, scents, solvents, and detergents are being poured out in a continuous stream.

  Frederick Soddy

  Science, Essence, Drug

  Frederick Soddy (1912). “Matter and energy”

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• Style. People talk about it being stylish and beautiful, that's at the service of the story. Style for me means nothing without substance and there are moments and things about the film that are stylish but hopefully at the service of the story.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Mean, People

  "Director Tom Ford Interview A SINGLE MAN". collider.com. December 7, 2009.

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• And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Sight, Effort, Being Thankful

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

  Paul Tillich

  Science, Religion, Culture

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• Substance and content over style and hype any day.

  Derwin L. Gray

  Leadership, Christian, Hype

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• One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of the subject, its symbolism and formality, its baffling terminology, its apparent delight in lengthy calculations: these tend to obscure its real nature. A musician would be horrified if his art were to be summed up as "a lot of tadpoles drawn on a row of lines"; but that"s all that the untrained eye can see in a page of sheet music... In the same way, the symbolism of mathematics is merely its coded form, not its substance.

  Ian Stewart

  Art, Real, Eye

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• Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance.

  Adam Smith

  Philosophy, People, Political

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• Do you want to be safe from the influence, ways, and lusts of the world and the flesh (I John 2:16)? From the sins which so easily entangles us (Hebrews 12:1)? Then delight in yourself in the Lord, in His provision, in His Word. Faithfully feed on the things that possess true substance and real meaning. When you remember that "all Scripture is given by inspiration by God and is profitable" (2 Timothy 3:16) and partake of such divine substance, then you are fed, you are led and you are safe!

  Elizabeth George

  Christian, Peace, Real

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart: The Power of God's Restoration and Healing”, p.26, Harvest House Publishers

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• Oh that God would give me the thing which I long for! That before I go hence and am no more seen, I may see a people wholly devoted to God, crucified to the world, and the world crucified to them. A people truly given up to God in body, soul and substance! How cheerfully would I then say, 'Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.'

  John Wesley

  Long, People, Giving

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.253

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• The spiritual substance from which comes all
  visible wealth is never depleted. It is right with you all the time and responds to your faith in it and your demands on it.

  Charles Fillmore

  Spiritual, Demand, Wealth

  Charles Fillmore (2012). “Prosperity: Spiritual Secrets to an Abundant Life”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• There is an invisible thought-stuff on which the mind acts, making things through the operation of a law not yet fully understood by man. Every thought moves upon this invisible substance in increasing or diminishing degree. When we praise the richness and fullness of God, this thought-stuff is tremendously increased in our mental atmosphere. It reflects into everything that our mind and our hands touch.

  Charles Fillmore

  Moving, Men, Hands

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• The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

  Francis Bacon

  Flower, Men, Garden

  Novum Organum 'Aphorisms'

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• It is necessary to give freely if we are to receive freely. The law of receiving includes giving. The knowledge that substance is omnipresent and that people cannot, therefore, impoverish themselves by giving (but rather will increase their supply) will enable us to give freely and cheerfully.

  Charles Fillmore

  Law, People, Giving

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• Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.

  William Ellery Channing

  Freedom, Names, People

  William Ellery CHANNING (1830). “The Importance and Means of a National Literature”, p.7

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• Not all the pride of beauty; Those eyes, that tell us what the sun is made of; Those lips, whose touch is to be bought with life; Those hills of driven snow, which seen are felt: All these possessed are nought, but as they are The proof, the substance of an inward passion, And the rich plunder of a taken heart.

  Edward Young

  Taken, Eye, Passion

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.188

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• Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

  George Chapman

  Dream, Men, Wind

  'Bussy D'Ambois' (1607-8)

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• The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Truth, Often Is, Names

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.433, Pan Macmillan

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• But work that's got real substance does make people feel, "There's someone else out there who relates to my experience, or who just helped me understand my own experience a little bit better." And I think that's still got enormous value.

  Edward Norton

  Real, Thinking, People

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• Emotion and thinking are not distinct substances.

  Lucrecia Martel

  Thinking, Emotion

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Art keeps its newness because it's at once unforgettable and impossible to remember entirely. Art is too volatile, multiple and evaporative to hold on to. It's more chemical reaction, one you have to re-create each time, than a substance. Art's discoveries are also, almost always, counter to ordinary truths.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Art, Discovery, Ordinary

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.

  Emily Yoffe

  Children, Thinking, Abuse

  "Picture Perfect" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. January 29, 2013.

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• When those who are educated using their education to exploit those who aren't. That's what the sub-prime scandal represents - people of education using it at the expense of others. At Jazz at Lincoln Center, we have 22 educational programs. Not just the word but the substance of education is guided by the arts.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, Educational, Lincoln Center

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• To make use of your mind to think conceptually is to leave substance and attach yourself to form

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Thinking, Mind, Use

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• On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?

  Farley Mowat

  Choices, World, Yeast

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