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• Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

  Andre Agassi

  Hard Work, Tennis, Grind

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• Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Inspirational, Art, Reality

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• Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

  Bernard Baruch

  Thinking, Information

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1970). “Baruch: My own story”

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• Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy.

  Samuel Pisar

  Science, Building Up, Arms

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• Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Science, Common Sense, Accounts

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1976). “The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays”, p.229, Harvard University Press

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• Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.

  Henry Adams

  Law, Bishops, Unbroken

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.222, Booklassic

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• I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word.

  Prince Philip

  Believe, Book, Communication

  "Do Books Matter?". Book edited by Brian Baumfield, 1973.

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• In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Pride, Men, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and reduced him either to a component part of the universe, to an economic animal or to a "physiological bag filled with psychological libido." Once man became materialized and atomized in Western thinking, it was only natural for a totalitarianism to arise to gather up the fragments into a new totality and substitute the collective man for the individual man who was isolated from all social responsibilities.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

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• The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

  Norman O. Brown

  Religious, Money, Heirs

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.240, Wesleyan University Press

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• Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

  Eric Hoffer

  Want, Pursue, One Thing

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

  Paul Mellon

  Unique, Emotional, Intellectual

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• I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

  Nathan Fillion

  Book, Hands, Smell

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• Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

  Thomas Sowell

  Reality, Rhetoric

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• We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure Love. Love without compromise or distraction.

  Barry Lyga

  Real, Kids, Love Is

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.386, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And what am I? (Adron) You’re kind and decent. You have a good heart. (Livia) I have no heart at all. What I have is a mechanical substitute that pumps blood through a broken body, and half the time it malfunctions. (Adron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Blood, Broken

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• What's next? If there are vampires in there, they probably drink artificial blood plasma substitute.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Blood, Vampire, Next

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Stolen”, p.56, Vintage Canada

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• IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral part of a well-rounded life, including a daily regimen of rigorous physical exercise, rewarding personal relationships, and sensible low-fat diet. A book should not be used a as a substitute or an excuse.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Reading, Exercise

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• There's just no substitute for the truth.

  Dan Brown

  Dan Brown (2002). “Deception Point”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

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• Ice is most welcome in a cold drink on a hot day. But in the heart of winter, you want a warm hot mug with your favorite soothing brew to keep the chill away. When you don’t have anything warm at hand, even a memory can be a small substitute. Remember a searing look of intimate eyes. Receive the inner fire.

  Vera Nazarian

  Memories, Eye, Heart

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• Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Passion, Ballet

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• Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful research tool, but it will never substitute for holding the book. I feel certain that at least within my lifetime, everyone will still be going to the bookstore and buying printed books. Thank God I'll die before I have to worry about whether the printed book itself will disappear. That's something I don't want to live to see.

  Anne Fadiman

  Book, Worry, Thank God

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• Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Literature, Fund, Trust Funds

  Edwin Louis Cole (1982). “Maximized Manhood: A Guide to Family Survival”, Whitaker Distribution

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• Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

  Arthur Erickson

  Entrepreneur, Today, Lasts

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Religion, Literature, Littles

  "A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry" (1928)

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