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No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding. – Louis V. Gerstner Jr.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one. – Edward Keating	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. – Hubert H. Humphrey	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative. – Karl Popper	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. – William Gladstone	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. – Malcolm Stevenson Forbes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop. – Alfred Hitchcock	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. – Edward Morgan Forster	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You do not destroy an idea by killing people you replace it with a better one. – Edward Keating	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed. – Peter McWilliams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. – Willie Nelson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.... – Charles Monroe Schultz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. – Edward Shepherd Mead	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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