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supplants
«If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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Arts and Sciences, functions, Humble servant, in for, natural science, printing, sciences, shorthand, stand in, supplant, supplanted, supplanting, supplants, the sciences, The Servant
«I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.»
Author: Don Herold
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dozen, half a dozen, half dozen, phonograph, phonographs, scant, scanted, sixty, supplant, supplanted, supplanting, supplants
«Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent - unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it - we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.»
Author: Emile M. Cioran
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assimilate, assimilated, assimilating, enthrone, enthroned, enthrones, exhaust, extent, perpetuate, perpetuated, perpetuating, supplant, supplanted, supplanting, supplants, unwilling
«Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.»
«And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me? / And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son? / And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.»
«Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Jealousy
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all in, imaginary, in the long run, jealousy, long run, supplant, supplanted, supplanting, supplants, The Long, The Long Run
«All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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challenging, conceptions, executed, existing, initiate, initiated, initiating, supplant, supplanted, supplanting, supplants
«For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
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channels, construction, creeds, fixity, openness, rigidly, rituals, spiritual life, supplant, supplanted, supplanting, supplants, The Current, thwart, thwarting
«The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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Heroism
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Hero of, idol, in turn, recollection, successor, supplant, supplanted, supplanting, supplants