Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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West Ohio Gas Co. v. Public Utilities Commission (No.2), 294 U.S. 79, 82, (1935).Benjamin N. Cardozo
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Reality is a poor substitute for my dreams.
Anonymous
The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.
Joseph Schumpeter
The Prophecies of Daniel are all of them related to one another, as if they were but several parts of one general Prophecy, given at several times. The first is the easiest to be understood, and every following Prophecy adds something new to the former.
Isaac Newton
The Fourth Gospel is admitted by all Greek scholars to be, in parts, extraordinarily obscure. No honest writer of history is obscure, as a rule, except through carelessness or ignorance — ignorance, it may be, of the art of writing, or of the subject he is writing about, or of the persons he is addressing, or of the words he is using, but, in any case, ignorance of something. But an honest writer of poetry or prophecy may be consciously obscure because a message, so to speak, has come into his mind in a certain form, and he feels this likely to prove the best form — ultimately, when his readers have thought about it.
Edwin Abbot
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
Howard Zinn
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