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There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
Cesar Chavez
When I put some Tabasco on things, and there's really nothing in Tabasco, it's not bad for you in any way, so that's kind of become my substitute. Now you got to get used to a hot mouth, but that's okay.
Mike Ditka
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
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
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
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It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
James F. Cooper 
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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft
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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
James A. Garfield
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Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
Elsa Maxwell
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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
Lee Iacocca
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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
Eric Hoffer
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
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Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.
Paul Graham
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
Ambrose Bierce
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