#substitute

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist. ↗

— Hal Sparks

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To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word. ↗

— Sebastian Franck

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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. ↗

— James Madison

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