Substitution Quotes - Page 3

• It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent.

  Paul A. Baran

  Causes, United States, Investment

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.88, NYU Press

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• Pessimism is the product of a hostile social state. Its answer is the substitution of a friendly social state. If this can be done it will disappear.

  Lester Frank Ward

  Friendly, Done, Answers

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• The Courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they should be disposed to exercise will instead of judgement; the consequences would be the substitution of their pleasure for that of the legislative body.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Exercise, Law, Judgement

  The Federalist Papers, No. 78 ("The Judiciary Department"), www.congress.gov. May 28, 1788.

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• Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side with the old, but the substitution of the new views for the old.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Views, Progress, Sides

  Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, V. I. Lenin (1927). “Collected works of V. I. Lenin”

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• Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which God Himself undertakes on our behalf.

  Karl Barth

  Behalf, Position, Eternal

  Karl Barth, Geoffrey William Bromiley, Thomas Forsyth Torrance (2004). “Church Dogmatics”, p.399, A&C Black

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• It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.

  Jairam Ramesh

  País, Pensamiento, Japón

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• I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.

  Charlize Theron

  Thinking, Acting, Huge

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• I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Trying, Cursing, Feels

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• Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

  Eric Hoffer

  Humility, Pride, Renunciation

  Eric Hoffer (1955). "El apasionado estado de ánimo, y otros aforismos".

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• If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes.

  George Perle

  Class, Tone, Twelve

  "The Listening Composer". Book by George Perle, p. 98, 1990.

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• Cuando el amor se convierte en polvo, el dinero se convierte en el sustituto.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dust, Turns

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• The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

  William James

  Men, Order, Intellectual

  William James (1911). “Some Problems of Philosophy: A Beginning of an Introduction to Philosophy”, p.51, U of Nebraska Press

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• Es mediante la eliminación constante de todo lo que es feo -pensamientos y palabras no menos que objetos tangibles- y mediante la sustitución de cosas de belleza verdadera y duradera como avanza todo el progreso de la humanidad.

  Anna Pavlova

  Humanity, Progress, Tangible

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• We find that the child who does not yet have language at his command, the child under two and a half, will be able to cooperate with our education if we go easy on the "blocking" techniques, the outright prohibitions, the "no's" and go heavy on "substitution" techniques, that is, the redirection or certain impulses and the offering of substitute satisfactions.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Block, Offering

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• Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.

  Mark Millar

  People, Culture, Want

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• Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.

  José Stalin

  Struggle, Life And Death, Revolution

  Joseph Stalin (1940). “Stalin's kampf: Joseph Stalin's credo”

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• Chubby Checker lost pounds by demonstrating how to move as if you were 'drying your back with a towel' − the substitution of the word 'back' for 'bottom' indicates the oddly wholesome image of the Twist.

  Jan Murray

  Dance, Moving, Twists

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• Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

  Sheldon Richman

  Gobierno, Política, Economía

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• Lo que llamamos educación y cultura no es, en su mayor parte, más que la sustitución de la experiencia por la lectura, de la vida por la literatura, de lo ficticio obsoleto por lo real contemporáneo.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Educación, Real, Enseñanza

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). "Obras completas de George Bernard Shaw: Obras de teatro, novelas, artículos, conferencias, cartas y ensayos: Pigmalión, La profesión de la señora Warren, Cándida, Las armas y el hombre, El hombre y Supermán, César y Cleopatra, Androcles y el león, Los artículos de guerra del New York Times, Recuerdos de Oscar Wilde y más", p.1933, e-artnow

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• In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his Son for an offence he has not even committed.' Though the sheer bluntness of this imagery (not original to me of course) might shock some, in truth, it is only a stark 'unmasking' of the violent, pre-Christian thinking behind such a theology.

  Steve Chalke

  Cristiano, Jesús, Niños

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• I've tried it long ago, with hashish and peyote. Fascinating, yes, but no good, no. This, as we find in alcohol, is an escape from awareness, a cheat, a momentary substitution, and in the end a destruction of it.

  Conrad Aiken

  Long Ago, Alcohol, Peyote

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• This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Essence, Difficult Questions, Heuristics

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and all these abstract whats are concepts. The intelletual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the persceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

  William James

  Summer, Cutting, Winter

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• REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Change, Happiness, People

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.186, 谷月社

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• The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.

  Douglas B. Reeves

  Educational, Effectiveness, Challenges

  Douglas B. Reeves (2012). “Transforming Professional Development into Student Results”, p.2, ASCD

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