#displacing

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#characteristic #chief #displacing #incompetence #journalism

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction. ↗

— John Mayer

#addiction #displacing #except #had #his

There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ↗

— Barney Frank

#lot #people #said