#substance

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war. ↗

— John S. Tanner

#among #atlantic #before #both #both sides

The only substance properly so called is the soul. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#only #properly #soul #substance

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams. ↗

— Les Brown

#begin #charge #design #destinies #dreams

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows. ↗

— Jennie Churchill

#forever #shadows #substance #throwing

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#driving #evidence #excel #faith #getting

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#constitute #constructive #did #direction #federalism

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

#else #emanate #expression #finding #itself

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

— Peter Latham

#given #intents #medicine #oftentimes #poisons

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#ideal #influence #monad #only #over

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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