A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
Robert McNamara
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren Buffett
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.
Rosser Reeves
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
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
Alfred P. Sloan
Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
Nancy Pelosi
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.
Paul Weyrich
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
Ernestine Rose
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Saint Augustine
Compassion is no substitute for justice.
Rush Limbaugh
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Russell Lynes
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
Ambrose Bierce
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.
Paul Graham
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Charles Dickens
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
Elfriede Jelinek
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
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