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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.


Theodore Roosevelt


#action #big #great #great nation #merely

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


#cartoons #deeper #dust #exist #grunge

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.


Robert Louis Stevenson


#enough #good #life #own #poor

I reject your reality and substitute my own.


Adam Savage


#my own #own #reality #reject #substitute

To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.


Alex Campbell


#barriers #conquer #effect #equivalents #fabricated

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


#any #apt #classes #fill #good

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.


Corey Hart


#because #being #could #dad #entertainment

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.


Tony Dungy


#children #dad #dads #engaged #full

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.


T. S. Eliot


#know #literature #little #much #our

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.


Susan Faludi


#lot #make #marriage #people #real






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