#substance

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web. ↗

— Monica Baldwin

#size #spider #substance #web #wisp

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows. ↗

— Jennie Churchill

#forever #shadows #substance #throwing

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend. ↗

— Lily Collins

#girl #girlfriend #i #just #real

The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

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Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents. ↗

— Peter Latham

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Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal. ↗

— Gilbert Newton Lewis

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People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

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When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

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I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table. ↗

— Mark Oliphant

#gunpowder #hair #i #kitchen #kitchen table