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People can be a fine substitute for other dogs. But I think that if they had to choose, dogs by and large would choose the company of other dogs.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Dog, Thinking, People

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To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

Alex Campbell

Conquer, Natural, Process

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A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution tends to shatter the community that was, without an adequate substitute.

Paul Goodman

Successful, Community, Adequate

Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.195, New York Review of Books

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I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to clearing up the slums.

Kenneth Clark

Moon, Thinking, Space

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Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.

Paul Johnson

People, Example, Followers

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Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.

Jeff Smith

Food, Cooking, Recipes

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Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

John Wesley

Dark, Men, Age

John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc”, p.585

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I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.

Candice Bergen

Choices, Notes, Retention

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Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing
things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump. It's blissfully simple to strike a savvy, sophisticated pose by attacking someone else's creations, but the old adage is right: Any fool can burn down a barn. Building one is something else again.

Martha Beck

Fall, Simple, Criticism

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I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals, that what can be imagined can be achieved, that you must dare to dream, but that there's no substitute for perseverance and hard work and teamwork because no one gets there alone; and that, while we commemorate the... the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible.

Chris Carter

Teamwork, Dream, Perseverance

Matt Hurwitz, Chris Carter (2009). “The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, the Myths, and the Movies”, Insight Editions

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The "brightness" of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely verbal and symbol-manipulating, and is almost certainly partly an obsessional device not to know and touch risky matter, just as Freud long ago pointed out that the nagging questions of small children are a substitute for asking the forbidden questions.

Paul Goodman

Children, Long Ago, Profound

Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 85), 1956.

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Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.

David Mitchell

Technology, Soldier, Quality

David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.266, Random House

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Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for the prestige which accrues to the man who presides over meetings, and this leads them to convoke assemblages over which they can preside. Finally, there is the meeting which is called not because there is business to be done, but because it is necessary to create the impression that business is being done. Such meetings are more than a substitute for action. They are widely regarded as action.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Men, Wish, Done

John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.

Stephen Hawking

Buttons, Alarms, Poor

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God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.

Adrian Rogers

Creating

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When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content.

Steve Jobs

Magic, Trying, Use

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The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.

H. L. Mencken

Believe, Mind, Wicked

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Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought.

Brian Kernighan

Clarity, Clarity Of Thought

Brian W. Kernighan (1976). “Software Tools”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

Tom Peters

Trying, Stuff, Way

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The idea of a judgment of history is secularism's vain, meaningless, hopeless, pathetic attempt to devise a substitute for what the great Abrahamic traditions of faith know is the final judgment of almighty God, who is not an impersonal force. History is not God. God is God. History is not our judge. God is our Judge.

Robert P. George

Ideas, Judging, Finals

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No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

Ted Williams

Hard Work, Come Up, Hard

Ted Williams, John Underwood (1969). “My turn at Bat: the story of my life”, Simon & Schuster

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In fact, marijuana lowers your stress level and lowers your body temperature. It actually seems that people live longer if they use it. If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add 24 years to your life.

Jack Herer

Stress, Marijuana, Years

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To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils and to assert the independence of my country- these were my objectives. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter - these were my means.

Wolfe Tone

Country, Memories, Mean

Sean Cronin, Richard Roche, Theobald Wolfe Tone (1973). “Freedom the Wolfe Tone way”

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Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

Elie Wiesel

Thinking, Few Words, Emphasis

"The Elevator Interview – Elie Wiesel (Exclusive)". The Algemeiner Interview, www.algemeiner.com. September 23, 2011.

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When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.

Richard Rohr

Mirrors, Way, Void

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