Martin Buber
Philosopher
"Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself."
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Ted Williams
Baseball Player
"No one has come up with a substitute for hard work."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence."
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"Using clichés is a substitute for thinking"
Henry Sy
Businessman
"There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money."
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"Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper."
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"Instead of the question "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do""
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"There is no substitute for guts."
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"A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation."
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"You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example."
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"Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking."
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"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job."
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"There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it."
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"Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice."
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"Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice."
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"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action."
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"Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail."
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"There is no substitute for a militant freedom."
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"That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves"
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"Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness."
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"Education is no substitute for intelligence."
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"We must substitute courage for caution."
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"I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another."
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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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