#replace

The young man went to India, where he was drowned. As there is no mystery in this matter, it may as well be stated here that young Heaton ultimately returned to England, as drowned men have ever been in the habit of doing, when their return will mightily inconvenience innocent persons who have taken their places. It is a disputed question whether the sudden disappearance of a man, or his reappearance after a lapse of years, is the more annoying. ("The Vengeance Of The Dead") ↗

— Robert Barr

#reappearance #replacement #men

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism. ↗

— Dora Russell

#co-operation #common #common good #competitiveness #expect

What I advise clients is, sell, pay the tax and be happy. Don't ask me to find a replacement unless it's land. ↗

— Mike Simpson

#ask #be happy #clients #find #happy

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. ↗

— Balthus

#another #cannot #i #know #language

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#culture #destroy #essential #forms #idolatry

You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay. ↗

— John Linder

#check #cost #earner #embedded #everybody

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with. ↗

— Charley Pride

#defining #defining moment #entertainers #experience #moment