quotes about Substitutes
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance
-- Ahmed YassinSource : "A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism". Book by Daniel Byman, p. 170, June 15, 2011.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
-- Alfred P. SloanSource : "The Almanac of Quotable Quotes from 1990". Book by Ronald D. Pasquariello, p. 103, 1991.
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If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production
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Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work
-- Andre Agassi -
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Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?
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The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
-- Anthony Burgess -
Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.
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The substitutes are all on the bench, and that's where they'll start the match.
-- Barry Davies -
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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.
-- Bidzina IvanishviliSource : "Bidzina Ivanishvili: the eccentric billionaire chasing Georgia's leadership" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2012.
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When working out, length is not a substitute for intensity.
-- Bill Loguidice -
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
-- Brian Greene -
There is no substitute for a militant freedom.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.
-- Charlotte Beers -
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There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.
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I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
-- Christopher HamptonSource : Christopher Hampton (2014). “Christopher Hampton Plays 1: Total Eclipse; The Philanthropist; Savages; Treats”, p.120, Faber & Faber
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There is no substitute for attentive repetition.
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Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction
-- Dashiell HammettSource : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.25, Profile Books
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There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.
-- Dick Morris -
As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
-- Dwight Morrow -
Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
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Someone once remarked that in adolescence ***** is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography.
-- Edmund White -
Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Relevance is not a substitute for the Gospel, but an entry point for it
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Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
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Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds
-- Elfriede JelinekSource : Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.
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What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute ...
-- Elizabeth Marshall ThomasSource : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (1996). “The Hidden Life Of Dogs”, p.134, Simon and Schuster
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Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
-- Ellis Peters -
Passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.
-- Eric Hoffer -
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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 -
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
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We must substitute fear for faith, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.
-- Florence Scovel Shinn -
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Education is no substitute for intelligence.
-- Frank HerbertSource : Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.90, Penguin
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Regardless of whether you are an entrepreneur or whether you are an employee of a large company, the absolute prerequisite is that you must know your stuff. There is no substitute for this.
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You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.
-- Fred Thompson -
Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion.
-- Gabriel VahanianSource : Gabriel Vahanian (2009). “The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era”, p.5, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.
-- Gene Roddenberry -
There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.
-- George A. Sheehan -
Using clichés is a substitute for thinking
-- George Orwell -
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
-- Georges Braque -
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Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.
-- Grover Cleveland -
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.
-- Harriet Lerner -
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Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.
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Prayer is a conversation with God, but prayer is no substitute for work.
-- Henry D. Moyle -
Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented.
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Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.
-- Henry GeorgeSource : Henry George (2014). “The Crime of Poverty: Speeches and Articles”, p.152, epubli
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And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything to replace Him.
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya -
Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.
-- Isaac Asimov -
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality
-- Jean Rousset -
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There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children
-- Jim George -
The substitute that thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.
-- John Kessel -
Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.
-- Jon Foreman -
The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.
-- Joseph A. Schumpeter -
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Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.
-- Joseph Addison -
Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.
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Vulgarity is no substitute for wit
-- Julian FellowesSource : "Downton Abbey: Series Three. Episode 3". TV Series, 2010 - 2015.
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
-- Lascelles Abercrombie -
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Training is useful but there is no substitute for experience.
-- Lotte LenyaSource : "Fictional character: Rosa Klebb". "From Russia with Love", www.imdb.com. 1963.
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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
-- Louis D. Brandeis -
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge -
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I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.
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There is no substitute for an ecstatic consumer.
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Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.
-- Miroslav Volf -
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You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship
-- Mitch Albom -
Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.
-- Nancy Pearcey -
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- Oscar Wilde -
Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
-- Oswald Chambers -
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The best substitute for money is ingenuity ...
-- Patti Page -
What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.
-- Patti PageSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.
-- Paul R. EhrlichSource : Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich (1991). “The population explosion”, Touchstone Books
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For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.
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The Bible is not God, nor is it a substitute for God, and to treat it as if it were God or a surrogate of God is to treat it in the very way that it itself condemns over and over again.
-- Peter J. GomesSource : Peter J. Gomes (2009). “Good Book: Discovering The Bible's Place In Our Liv”, p.40, Harper Collins
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Forgiveness is no substitute for justice.
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Typing is no substitute for thinking.
-- Richard HammingSource : "Structured BASIC programming". Book by John G. Kemeny, p. 118, 1987.
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Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.
-- Richard Rohr -
...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
-- Richard Russo -
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I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.
-- Robert Charles Wilson -
Marriage is no substitute for political experience.
-- Sharad Pawar -
A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.
-- Sholom Aleichem -
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She may be cute, but she's just a substitute.
-- Smokey Robinson -
Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
-- Stephen Covey -
Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
-- Steve Martin -
Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.
-- T. Colin Campbell -