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«Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power»
«Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas»
Author: Eric Bentley
| Keywords:
age of, bright, genuine, jargon, jargon of, ours, principles, slogans, substitutes, The Age
«The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
absolute, human body, indifference, major, mysteries, particular, substitutes, The Absolute, yearning, yearnings
«Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both»
Author: John Andrew Holmes
| About:
Speech
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conveniently, locate, located, locates, locating, Midway, substitutes
«The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.»
Author: Joshua Loth Liebman
| Keywords:
acceptance, accepting, appreciation, approval, companionship, comrades, fellowship, Fellowship of, genuine, go through, Joy of, primary, substitutes, The Fellowship of, The sense
«Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts»
Author: Saint John Chrysostom
| About:
Poverty,
Reason
| Keywords:
absurdities, concepts, strangest, substitutes, trusts
«The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost / for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
advantages, benign, cheap, comforts, competition, department, ensures, ensuring, evade, evaded, evading, fittest, improved, luxuries, owe, pays, substitutes, survival, survival of the fittest, train
«I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Joy,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
pleasures, substituted, substitutes, substituting, wander
«Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Competence,
Democracy
| Keywords:
appointment, by election, corrupt, election, election of, incompetent, incompetents, substitutes
«Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
appointment, corrupt, election, form of government, incompetent, incompetents, substitutes
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