Hippocrates
Physician
"Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends."
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Substance
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Ivan Pavlov
Physiologist
"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."
Ernest Holmes
Writer
"God is all there is - God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form."
Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether"
Elizabeth I
Queen
"Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree."
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"Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation"
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"The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom."
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"When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance."
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"A person is an individual substance of a rational nature."
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"It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance."
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"Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament: They are but beggars that can count their worth; But my true love is grown to such excess, I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth."
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"My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me."
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"Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing and all any man can do is to take these facts and substances and re-arrange them in new combinations."
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"Number was the substance of all things."
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"Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility."
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"That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances."
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"Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface."
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"Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality."
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"As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance."
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"Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'."
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"Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known"
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"Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."
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"All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried."
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"In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality."
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"One's true worth as a human being is not a matter of outward appearance or title, but derives rather from the breadth of one's spirit. Everything comes down to faith and conviction. It is what is in one's heart, and the substance of one's actions that count."
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