Quotes and Sayings About Substitutes
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
-- Adam Hochschild -
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.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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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.
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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.
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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