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• Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that they may always be superseded, and that they may possibly be deduced from probability estimates. Yet denying causality would be the same as attempting to persuade the theorist to give up his search; and that such an attempt cannot be backed by anything like a proof.

  Karl Popper

  Giving Up, Mean, Science

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.244, Routledge

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• The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side. So you had a strict boundary, and that was something I'd grown up with as well. Also, you were able to have different moods on each side, which was nice.

  Kate Bush

  Nice, Cutting, Different

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.

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• Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

  Amy Chua

  Thinking, Chinese, Balance

  "Is strict parenting better for children?". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

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• One of my strict, strict rules is a no auto-tune policy.

  Yukimi Nagano

  Auto Tune, Tunes, Policy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a better dancer.

  Kate Hudson

  Teacher, Dancing, Dancer

  "Kate Hudson Wants You to Wear Gym Clothes On a Date". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. June 8, 2015.

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• Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

  Vanna Bonta

  Wild Imagination, Discipline, Common Sense

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• I was completely unhealthy, obese, so I committed to running three miles every morning for six months and following a strict diet, and 100 pounds came off.

  Josh Young

  Running, Morning, Three

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• I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, House, Empires

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Character, Self, Individual

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• I'm very strict with myself. I'm an Aries and sort of a challenge to myself.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Challenges, Aries

  "Debbie Reynolds: The last 'Republic' interview". Interview with Randy Cordova, www.azcentral.com. December 28, 2016.

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• The one thing I never did, I was never strict in my techniques. I might have pretended in the past at times that I did work serially, or something like that, but I never did, it was always I let my ear tell me what to do.

  Richard Meale

  Past, Might, Technique

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. January 25, 2003.

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• My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

  Mark Ronson

  Mother, Made, Hated

  "Mark Ronson: This charming man" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2010.

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• One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.

  W. H. Auden

  Discovery, Wish, Important

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• My mother was raised very, very strict Catholic in the Midwest. There was so much fear and intimidation [in the faith]. So, growing up, I was always looking for my connection. I've found myself praying before meals, before bed; there's always been this gratitude for things that are bigger than me.

  Alicia Keys

  Mother, Gratitude, Growing Up

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mean, Hands, Taught

  Garth Hallett, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1977). “A companion to Wittgenstein's "Philosophical investigations"”, Cornell Univ Pr

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• But when General Ziaul Haq introduced the strict blasphemy - 295 A, B, C - of Pakistan's penal code, then from 1986 to today there are hundreds cases that are registered under the protection of blasphemy law. And until today, no case against any minorities, and especially Christians, is proved in the higher court. The lower court would order punishment but the higher court would always acquit people. So it proves that this law is being used as a tool of victimization against minorities and innocent people of Pakistan.

  Shahbaz Bhatti

  Christian, Law, Punishment

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the need for manual skill, have transformed the majority of the population from workers into laborers. There are, that is to say, fewer and fewer jobs which a man can find a pride and satisfaction in doing well, more and more which have no interest in themselves and can be valued only for the money they provide.

  W. H. Auden

  Jobs, Pride, Men

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("A Russian Aesthete"), (p. 279), 1973.

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• Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Vices, Degrees, May

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.381, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I hike every day with my dog, after the kids are off to school. I tend to get wrapped up in all the things that need to be done during the day, so I really am strict about setting that time aside for myself and not scheduling anything before eleven, so I can get my hike in.

  Natalie Maines

  Dog, School, Kids

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

  Confucius

  Criticism, Failing, Oneself

  Confucius (1950). “The Best of Confucius”

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• The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.

  Josh Klinghoffer

  Real, Two, Peppers

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• I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.

  Natalie Portman

  Animal, Vegetarian, Values

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• In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Knowledge, Temples

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

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• I eat whatever I want. I can get away with it. There are some strict regiment eatings, but I don't follow them.

  Tyler Posey

  Want, Eating, Get Away

  Source: collider.com

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• The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Patriotic, Demand, Loyal

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