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1 " Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find. "
― Patrick Rothfuss , The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
2 " It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes between us as much as it makes life possible. A poor substitute for the sort of passion we like to extol perhaps, but real love shares more in common with hatred and rage than it does with geniality or politeness. "
― Lionel Shriver , We Need to Talk About Kevin
3 " The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction. "
― Robert G. Thompson , Hooked on Customers: The Five Habits of Legendary Customer-Centric Companies
4 " Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. "
5 " Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake sweet but not nourishing. "
6 " Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise. "
7 " Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. "
