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• [My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works in picture books, because you don't want to articulate anything in words that is already shown through the pictures.

  Jenna Bush

  Mom, Book, School

  "Jenna Bush: 'I'm living my dream job'". TODAY Interview, www.today.com. April 22, 2008.

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• Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are only its conditions? The essence of music is revelation.

  Heinrich Heine

  Law, Essence, Doubt

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• Life, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in the strict sense of the word, drama. The primary, radical meaning of life appears when it is employed in the sense not of biology, but of biography. For the very strong reason that the whole of biology is quite definitely only a chapter in certain biographies, it is what biologists do in the portion of their lives open to biography.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Strong, Drama, Adventure

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter IX: "The Primitive and the Technical", 1929.

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• You could tell from the books whether a library was meant for show or not. Books that were used had an open, interested feel to them, even if closed and neatly lined up on a shelf in strict order with their fellows. You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as you did in it and was willing to help when you reached for it.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Book, Order, Library

  Diana Gabaldon (2011). “The Scottish Prisoner: A Novel”, p.249, Delacorte Press

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• The General Order is always:
  ......To manoeuver in a body and on the attack.
  ......To maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline.
  ......To keep the troops constantly at the ready.
  ......To employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go.
  ......To use the bayonet on every possible occasion.
  And to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed.

  Lazare Carnot

  Military, Order, Discipline

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• I was not allowed to think of him. That was something I tried to be very strict about. Of course I slipped; I was only human. But I was getting better, and so the pain was something I could avoid for days at a time now. The trade-off was the never-ending numbness. Between pain and nothing, I'd chosen nothing.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Pain, Thinking, Numbness

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• I'm on a diet. It's very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It's working out - I've gained fifteen pounds!

  Beth Ditto

  Music, Dog, Work Out

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• Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.

  Dan Barker

  Fear, Opposites, Safety

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Reality, Perfect, Atheism

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• I'm a proud strict mom and, you know, I'm really proud of the two daughters I've raised. And I'm especially proud of my relationship with them. We're very close. I think we're good friends.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Mother, Daughter

  "TalkAsia" with Sara Sidner, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2012.

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• Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence to the rules is essential.

  Francis Ouimet

  Golf, Games, Sportsmanship

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• In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that the experimental results are not reliable or that the discrepancies which are asserted to exist between the experimental results and the theory are only apparent and that they will disappear with the advance of our understanding. If you insist on strict proof (or strict disproof) in the empirical sciences, you will never benefit from experience, and never learn from it how wrong you are.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Understanding, Benefits

  "The Logic of Scientific Discovery".

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• He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Judging, Criticism, Wish

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• I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. There is a paradise in and around you right now, and to be there you don't even have to make a move. There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened. All potential experiences are within you already. You can open up to them at any time.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Believe, Moving

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.114, Gibbs Smith

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• As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Freedom, Air, Shapes

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.102, Verso

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• I was in analysis. I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian and if you kill yourself they make you pay for the sessions you miss.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humor, Suicidal

  Annie Hall (motion picture) (1977). Cowritten with Marshall Brickman. This joke appeared in a monologue recorded live in August 1968 and released on The Third Woody Allen Album.

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• I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry." "Right," Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.

  Chris d'Lacey

  Writing, Fire, Dragons

  Chris d'Lacey (2011). “The Fire Within”, p.275, Scholastic Inc.

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• You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Integrity, Men, World

  Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

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• I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.

  Karisma Kapoor

  Mother, Kids, Discipline

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• On January 30, 1988, my twenty-seventh birthday, I became a strict vegetarian. I developed a passion for health and nutrition. My diet consists of fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and legumes only, and has for the past 15 years now.

  Dexter Scott King

  Passion, Past, Vegetables

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• He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

  Charles Kingsley

  Discovery, Water, Mind

  Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke (fict. name.) (1862). “Alton Locke”, p.21

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• I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Truth, Regard

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.33

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• Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan [for 2011].

  Jack Black

  Raisins, Plans, Push Ups

  "Jack Black Reveals Meaty New Year’s Resolution: I’m Going To Drop ‘200 Quarter-Pounder With Cheeses!’". Access Hollywood Interview, www.accessonline.com. December 19, 2010.

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• A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.

  Michael Haneke

  Form, Improvisation, Mines

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• Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that he speak beyond his means, precisely because he does not speak of himself. Hence the danger of a speech that, in a sense, speaks against the one who lends himself to it. One must obtain forgiveness for every essay in theology. In all senses.

  Jean-Luc Marion

  Mean, Doe, Demand

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