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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
I would never have turned pro training like an average bodybuilder. There is no substitute for intensity.
A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.
If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.
No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.
This is about objects, not motifs. The photo is only a substitute for an object; it is unsuitable as a picture in its customary sense.
Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic.
I always want to score as quickly as possible, whether I am in the starting lineup or playing as a substitute.
In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?
With the Selecao, every substitute is a starter in their club teams, so the competition is always top notch.
When we launched Hulu, everybody was saying, 'Oh, this is going to be a substitute for pay TV in the living room.'
When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.
A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.
Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.
A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.
All men like to think that they can do it alone, but a real man knows that there no substitute for support , encouragement or a pit crew.
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.
We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.
You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.
Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.
No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.
Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.
I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
Keep your mind centered on that which leads to light, intensively. Accept no substitute.
Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.
Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.
Like every player, I want to start more matches rather than be used as a substitute.
A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character.
What I do miss is foreign travel, because there really is no substitute for showing up somewhere and representing the United States.
But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.
Companies need to be very active in formulating public policy - not as a substitute for government, but as a supplement.
It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.
A hidden camera must never become a lazy substitute for the rigours of old-style reporting.
The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.
Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there's no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.
If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author.
When I was not a body guard, I was a substitute teacher during the day, I was bounced clubs at night and yeah, I was working.
Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.
Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.
To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.
A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.
I initially found it difficult with my role as a substitute, sometimes sitting in the stands at Spurs, but I learned to deal with it.
