#substitute

Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired. ↗

— John Shadegg

#benefits #elderly #first #germany #i

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#hard #hard work #possible #power #skill

I once heard it said that everyone needs love-and if they're denied, they'll find it, or a reasonable substitute somewhere. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#love #substitute #inspirational

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself. ↗

— Georges Braque

#definition #itself #substitute #thing

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer. ↗

— Brian Greene

#answer #attaining #best #deepest #familiarity

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#bipartisanship #cannot #forward #going #having

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. ↗

— Alfred P. Sloan

#diagnosis #manners #right #substitute

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#believe #course #customers #either #go

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#ever #founded #his #knows #only

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#grand #ignorance #increasingly #knowledge #larger