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• When a thing is bought not for its use but for its costliness, cheapness is no recommendation. As Sismondi remarks, the consequence of cheapening articles of vanity, is not that less is expended on such things, but that the buyers substitute for the cheapened article some other which is more costly, or a more elaborate quality of the same thing; and as the inferior quality answered the purpose of vanity equally well when it was equally expensive, a tax on the article is really paid by nobody: it is a creation of public revenue by which nobody loses.

  John Stuart Mill

  Vanity, Quality, Purpose

  John Stuart Mill (1862). “Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.460

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• Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line can come in a substitute for trying to form a longer sense of what the book is about.

  Alice Sebold

  Book, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

  Henry James

  Creating Art, Artistic, Force

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• There is no substitute for character. You can buy brains but you cannot buy character.

  Robert A. Cook

  Character, Brain

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• A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Views, Understanding, Matter

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

  Mark Steyn

  Law, Embodiment, Moral

  Mark Steyn (2012). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.203, Regnery Publishing

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• It is not wise for us to permit a few people on the Federal Reserve Board to have life and death power over our economy. My recommendation for reducing some of that power is to repeal legal tender laws and eliminate all taxes on gold, silver and platinum transactions. That way there would be money substitutes and the government money monopoly would be reduced and hence the ability to tax - some people would say steal from - us through inflation.

  Walter E. Williams

  Wise, Law, Government

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• Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there's no substitute for investor vigilance. Government regulations provide a false sense of security - and that's worth less than no sense of security at all.

  John Stossel

  Government, Law, Regulation

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• Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Merit, Clarity

  "The Elements of Style". Book by E. B. White, Ch. V: An Approach to Style, 1959.

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• Mass communication can aid in personal evangelism and the development of Christians, but it cannot be a substitute for the world seeing the truth lived through us.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Communication, Development

  Erwin W. Lutzer (1985). “How In This World Can I Be Holy?”, p.46, Moody Publishers

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• Your mind is like a garden - unless you cultivate flowers, weeds will flourish. To keep your mind positive, substitute positive thoughts for negative thoughts.

  Brian Tracy

  Weed, Flower, Garden

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• The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.

  Charles Handy

  Responsibility, Sorting, Efficient

  Charles Handy (1995). “The Age of Paradox”, p.10, Harvard Business Press

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• Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Good Intentions, Intention, Obedience

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• Process is not a substitute for skill.

  Jim Highsmith

  Skills, Process

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• I basically don't think that the way we do things is that dependent on one resource, such as oil. There can be different kinds of engines for cars. I think that solar heating, wind heating can substitute for a lot of uses for oil. I'd like to see those things happen because they are more sustainable in any case. But I do not think that running out of oil is not going to bother us that much. I think we have got to be rescued by something or we really are going down a slippery slope.

  Jane Jacobs

  Running, Thinking, Wind

  Interview with James Kunstler for Metropolis Magazine, March 2001.

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• I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.

  Jerry Garcia

  Thinking, Order, Law

  Source: medium.com

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• We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.

  Erich Fromm

  Real, Nice, Kind

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Collective insurance policies and social protections have given way to the forces of economic deregulation, the transformation of the welfare state into punitive workfare programs, the privatization of public goods and an appeal to individual accountability as a substitute for social responsibility.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, Accountability, Deregulation

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Edward Snowden's real "crime" is that he demonstrated how knowledge can be used to empower people, to get them to think as critically engaged citizens rather than assume that knowledge and education are merely about the learning of skills - a reductive concept that substitutes training for education and reinforces the flight from reason and the goose-stepping reflexes of an authoritarian mindset.

  Henry Giroux

  Real, Thinking, Skills

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think it is really really important that those of us who have deep-faith lives don't feel like we could substitute our own views for everybody else in society regardless of their views.

  Tim Kaine

  Thinking, Views, Important

  Source: www.politico.com

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• There's a whole lot of potential here [in vice-president candidates debates]. But it's not going to be a substitute for [Donald] Trump picking up the pace, the slack himself. It's not going to be a substitute for that.

  Donald Trump

  President, Vices, Pace

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

  Pablo Casals

  Ease, Labor, Performances

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• The truth of religion comes from its symbolic rendering of man's moral experience; it proceeds intuitively and imaginatively. Its falsehood comes from its attempt to substitute itself for science and to pretend that its poetic statements are information about reality.

  Eugene Genovese

  Reality, Men, Information

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• The external support can never substitute internal support, the example that we have to look at very well is Egypt and Tunisia ; they have all the support from the West and from the Gulf and from most of the countries of the world. When they don't have support within their country, they couldn't continue more than - how many weeks ? - three weeks. So, the only reason we stand here for two years and a half is because we have internal support, public support.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Countries Of The World, Egypt

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who works on the technologies of virtual reality, the whole reality has become the object of art, with a possibility to substitute the virtual with the real.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Real, Technology

  Source: ctheory.net

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