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"Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next."
"We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God."
"Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance."
"Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin."
"Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same."
"When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will"
"I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse."
"'I am that I am,' said the Eternal. The Eternal - it is the race. One in substance - undifferentiated. One in time - stable and eternal."
"Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package."
"A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production."
"There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?"
"There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and texture of eternity, so that spirits still embodied may well tremble at it."
"Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying."
"FYI: when you see a grammar nazi foaming at the mouth, you are watching someone with absolutely nothing of substance to say."
"Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things."
"If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, . . . let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second."
"Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is."
"No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again."
"Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present."
"In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist."
