Robust Quotes

• Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Motivational, Health

  Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations p. 139 Fred Metcalf. Penguin Books, London (2001)

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• Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Real, Brave

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.275, Rajpal & Sons

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• Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Light, Healthy

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.157

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• For the robust, an error is information.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Errors, Information

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.71, Penguin UK

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• Hardship, in forcing us to exercise greater patience and forbearance in daily life, actually makes us stronger and more robust. From the daily experience of hardship comes a greater capacity to accept difficulties without losing our sense of inner calm. Of course, I do not advocate seeking out hardship as a way of life, but merely wish to suggest that, if you relate to it constructively, it can bring greater inner strength and fortitude.

  Dalai Lama

  Exercise, Inner Strength, Stronger

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• A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

  Chinua Achebe

  Leadership, Healthy, Democracy

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Mar 27, 2016

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• The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

  George Eliot

  Ego, Doe, Belief

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.345, Penguin

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• Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

  Peter Kreeft

  Simple, Achievement, Insane

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• If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

  Alan Rickman

  Art, Littles, Tender Love

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• The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations.

  Steve Case

  Way, Economy, Nations

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• Using SROI to explore the value of our online question and answer service, askTheSite, helped us develop new mechanisms for speaking to young people and gain a real insight into the impact of our work. The project enabled us to demonstrate YouthNets commitment to robust impact measurement as well as our commercial approach to project evaluation. Perhaps most importantly, being able to assign a monetary value to askTheSite has enabled YouthNet to convey to current and potential funders how valuable the service is for both young people and the wider society in a language that they understand

  Sarah McCoy

  Real, Commitment, Impact

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• Our philosophy is we call it as we see it. Sometimes you agree, sometimes you don't. Robust debate is good.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Business, Philosophy, Believe

  "Letterman Denounces Iraq War, Sheehan Critics". www.newsbusters.org. January 3, 2006.

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• I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Years, Abuse, Constitution

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• The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

  Claude Bernard

  Believe, Should Have, Belief

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• If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

  Xunzi

  Strong, Humor, Blood

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• Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal.

  William Shakespeare

  Strength, Wind, Loyal

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• He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dust, Poverty, Spirit

  c.1883 Complete Poems, no.1587 (first published 1890).

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• Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

  Kofi Annan

  Skills, Organization, Community

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.

  Jay Sekulow

  Insulting, Speech, Court

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• Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

  David K. Shipler

  Spiritual, Song, Age

  David K. Shipler (2015). “Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land”, p.28, Broadway Books

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• Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough.

  Anthony Stafford Beer

  Land, Car, Progress

  "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 88), 1968.

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• Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost.

  Burt Rutan

  Space, Goal, Cost

  "Commercial space travel next leap for mankind?" by Michael Coren, www.cnn.com. June 20, 2004.

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• Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

  William J. Brennan

  Issues, Government, Freedom Of Speech

  New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)

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• No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Horse, Cheer, Medicine

  "Obama's Speech; McCain's Palinomy" by Alexander Cockburn, www.counterpunch.org. August 30, 2008.

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• Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Strong, Passion, Army

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Janet Todd (1989). “The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft”, NYU Press

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