Andy Warhol

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

American Artist

Tony Robbins

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

American Speaker

Theodore Roosevelt

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

American President

Igor Stravinsky

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Russian Composer

John Lewis

I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.

American Politician

James F. Byrnes

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

Voltaire

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

French Writer

John Lennon

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

English Musician

Alanis Morissette

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

Canadian Musician

Bjarke Ingels

Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world.

Danish Architect

Using 'instead' suggests a conscious decision to choose one option over another.

Choice Implication

'Instead' highlights what is used as a substitute, not just what is being replaced.

Replacement Focus

'Instead' often introduces an action that replaces another, possibly unexpected action.

Action Switch

Use 'instead' to highlight a situation's outcome being opposite to what was anticipated.

Contrary Expectation

'Instead' can infuse a sentence with an element of surprise or unanticipated result.

Surprise Element

'Instead' often reflects a shift in emotion from what was expected to what actually happened.

Emotional Contrast

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What happens during a...

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 Though the name suggested impossibility, modern scientific and political progress raised hopes of these dreams finally becoming reality. But time and time again, they instead turned into nightmares of war, famine, and oppression. And as artists began to question utopian thinking,

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The psychology of...

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How do animals...

 and more importantly, we need to want to keep eating new foods. And that's why the dopamine levels off when a food becomes boring. Now, back to that meal. What happens if in place of the healthy, balanced dish, you eat sugar-rich food instead?

How sugar affects the...

 I stopped them, those people. I complained to the police. So the policemen, instead of helping me, they threw me in this small, tiny shell, like an animal. And that was the night of anger when one of the brightest and biggest ideas was born.

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 from side to side instead of up and down. So I immediately knew it was the largest tiger shark I've ever seen in my life and I've spent my entire life underwater. and I've seen plenty of tiger sharks. This was like a truck.

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 exercise i was getting along the way and this really helped me to keep the game kind of rational instead of emotional the way it can get this was a big war i had to break this down to the smallest battle i could win every

The psychological weight...

 realized this truth. And instead of isolating herself in her pain, she reached out to help heal others. This is her Impact.

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