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• I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.

  Larry Wall

  Use, Grammar

  Usenet postings, 1998.

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• I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic.

  Gore Verbinski

  Thinking, Facts, Logic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The President must be true to his word. He must keep his faith with the folks who elected him twice. In other words, he must replace Sandra Day O'Connor with a strict constructionist. The president has a God-given opportunity to change the balance on the Supreme Court. On issue after issue—abortion, sodomy, public display of the Ten Commandments—O'Connor has sided with the court's liberal bloc. Time and again, Justice O'Connor and her colleagues have used the Constitution as an excuse to force weird social experiments on the nation.

  Rick Scarborough

  Opportunity, Issues, Justice

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• The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how to be flexible.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Long, People, Trying

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• I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

  Margaret Atwood

  Facts, Different, Belief

  "Narrative Magazine’s Friday Feature: Margaret Atwood Interview, In Which She Talks About “A Handmaid’s Tale”,“The Year Of The Flood” And Having Fun". Interview with Jo Scott-Coe, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Judgement, Enemy, Politics

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• It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

  Emile Zola

  Joy, Had Enough, Virtue

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

  Aristotle

  Mind, Demand, Accepting

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• I think a strict vegetarian diet acts as a good cleansing program for people who come from a diet heavy in animal foods and processed foods. But for some people, when it goes on too long it seems to backfire.

  Ann Louise Gittleman

  Animal, Thinking, Vegetarian Diet

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• The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Clothes, Gentleman, Conservative

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

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• I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it's like, 'Oh, gosh, I've gotta be in at this time,' they know what they're doing. I have great parents.

  Cody Linley

  Kids, Thinking, Parent

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• Democrtitus, in the fifth century B.C. had declared that all the world was composed of only two elements: atomes and the void. This reduction of the myriad of forms to only two was the ultimate in dualistic reasoning. Christianity adopted dualism when it created the strict division between good and evil and heaven and hell.

  Leonard Shlain

  Two, Evil, Heaven

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• Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.

  Fisher Ames

  Reputation, Failing, Scrutiny

  Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames”, p.116

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• Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Morality

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3373, Manonmani Publishers

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• The greatness of nations is shown by their strict regard for human rights, rigid enforcement of the law without bias, and just administration of the affairs of life.

  Mary Burnett Talbert

  Greatness, Rights, Law

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• I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.

  Anne Stevenson

  Musical, Trying, Sound

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• Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.

  Derek Jacobi

  Actors, Faces, Hats

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• The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Fun, Stuff, Scripts

  "Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd WANDERLUST Interview". Press conference, collider.com. February 20, 2012.

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• We have a strict 'no a-hole policy' at SpaceX. And we fire people they are. I mean, we give them a little bit of warning. But if they continue to be an a-hole, then they're fired.

  Elon Musk

  Mean, Fire, People

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• I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

  Tori Amos

  Dad, Mum, Upbringing

  "Tori Amos: 'Anything is easier to talk about in music than in conversation'". Interview with Tim Teeman, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2013.

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• I don't want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my daughter to be passionate about doing good things and pursuing real things and hobbies instead of frivolous materialistic stuff.

  Holly Madison

  Daughter, Mother, Real

  "Holly Madison: Boyfriend Pasquale Rotella and I Are 'Wackos,' Have Pretend Conversations With Our Baby 'All the Time'". Us Weekly Interview, www.usmagazine.com. January 26, 2013.

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• Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.

  Frederick Lenz

  Zips, Study, Lost

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• It is only in the last 800 years that the rules have come into being and conservative Zen has surfaced. It is not particularly popular in Japan at all. Hardly anybody practices Zen any more because it's just too strict; there are too many rules.

  Frederick Lenz

  Japan, Years, Practice

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• My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

  Tori Amos

  Father, Church, Ability

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• If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature unchanged, we should never doubt we were in another world, and so in strict reality we should be, just as if all the world besides our senses were changed.

  John Muir

  Nature, Reality, Leaving

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.12, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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