#substitute

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

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Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it. ↗

— Andre Agassi

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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#judgement #never #organisation #substitute

Humility is no substitute for a good personality. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#humility #personality #substitute

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#know #literature #little #much #our

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#brave #experience #nothing #risks #substitute

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics. ↗

— Mary Daly

#many #religious #religious experience #substitute #work

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#bound #children #commitment #family #father

I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression. ↗

— Adolf Galland

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I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

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