#substance

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

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Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

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Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance. ↗

— Max Bill

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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight. ↗

— Alberto Tomba

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As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance. ↗

— Seann William Scott

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We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. ↗

— John Sculley

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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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People think of me as a mannequin, all show and no substance. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#people #show #substance #think

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface. ↗

— Christian Slater

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