#substance

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. ↗

— Dee Hock

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Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. ↗

— Dee Hock

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The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income. ↗

— Dee Hock

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In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance - but they marketed it wonderfully. ↗

— Joseph C. Wilson

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The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened. ↗

— Joseph C. Wilson

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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#style #subject #substance #surface #unceasingly

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war. ↗

— John S. Tanner

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The only substance properly so called is the soul. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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