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There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were. David Foster Wallace
Quentin Crisp quote: "Sexual intercourse is a poor substitute for masturbation."
Sexual intercourse is a poor substitute for masturbation. Quentin Crisp
One touch of regret- not the canny substitute but the true regret from the heart- would have made him a different man, and the British Empire a different institution. E. M. Forster
She was one of those writers, far from rare in the world of letters, who suppose that push and pull are an adequate substitute for talent... W. Somerset Maugham
The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper. Cory Doctorow
And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked. Alexander Dumas
And thus I learned that at Harvard, while knowing a great deal is the norm and knowing everything is the goal, appearing to know everything is an acceptable substitute. I pondered this great truth during the two-hour seminar. I was so buoyed up by it that I didn't pay enough attention to snorkeling up little bits of food in order to keep my nausea under control. I sailed right on into my next class, another seminar, confident that I could get through it without losing my lunch. Martha Beck
Controversy and contention are weakening habits. If Satan can succeed in creating in us the pastime of arguing, quarreling, and contention, it is easier for him to bind us with heavier sins which can destroy our eternal lives. Anger is a poor substitute for self-mastery and compassionate service. Marvin J. Ashton
Charles R. Swindoll quote: "Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for..."
Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned Charles R. Swindoll
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion...Appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines that only tend to elate and magnify few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. Charlotte Bronte
Saul Bellow quote: "It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily,..."
It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband. Saul Bellow
The air is so crisp it gives me a brief, delusive sense of health and youth. those I don't have but I have learned not to scorn the substitutes: quiet, plenty of time, and a job to spend it on. Wallace Stegner
Rick Moody quote: "[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to..."
[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute. Rick Moody
Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver. Alain de Botton
A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man is purely mental because man is not just a disembodied mind. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it. It is only by making our knowledge part of ourselves, through action, that we enter into the reality that is signified by our concepts. Thomas Merton

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