| "Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." »Aesop |
| "Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen 'Hey, you'" »Wilson Mizner |
| "Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational." »Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
| "We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams." »Les Brown |
| "Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form." »Thomas Troward |
| "The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss." »Winston Churchill |
| "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." »Bible |
| "The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance." »Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| "Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance." »Sam Brown |
| "What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it ... not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses." »Mario M Cuomo |
| "Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like that snail. I build a defensive wall around myself, a 'shell' if you will. But my shell isn't made out of a hard, protective substance. Mine is made out of tinfoil and paper bags." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make." »Robert Francis Kennedy |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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