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• Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Law, Discipline

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Children, Lost Love, Discipline

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• You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

  Michael Moore

  Self, Defense, Humans

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• Good question. (Acheron) I have a better one. How are we going to clean up this mess? (Kyrian) Nah, mine’s even better. How do you hide a chainsaw in your locker at school? I’m thinking they’re not going to stop, and while the school has a strict no-weapons policy, I don’t think the plastic sporks in the cafeteria are going to do much to combat them. I need protection, man. Serious protection. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  School, Men, Thinking

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• I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

  Lady Gaga

  Diets

  "Lady Gaga Discusses Weight Gain, Reveals Culinary Guilty Pleasures". Interview with Elvis Duran, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Notes, Session

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• We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

  Evan Davis

  Behaviour, Cheat, Accepted

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• The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.

  Derek Jeter

  Yankees, Hair, Mustache

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• I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.

  Billy Corgan

  Teamwork, Thinking, Feet

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• I try my best to eat healthy the majority of the time so that I feel good and have more energy. I am so passionate about eating healthily, I am actually certified in nutrition. I try my best to eat organic whenever possible, but it's important not to be too strict about it. Just do the best you can.

  Miranda Kerr

  Feel Good, Healthy, Important

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• Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

  Harlan Coben

  Teacher, Tragedy, Hell

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• I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious.

  Nick Clegg

  Dad, Want

  "Clegg: banning Sun's Page 3 girls would be illiberal" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.

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• When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Teaching, School

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• I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.

  Amy Chua

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  "A Memoir Of A 'Tiger Mother's' Quest For Perfection". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Michele Norris, www.npr.org. January 14, 2011.

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• I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Religious, Wall

  "Jimmy Carter Interview: Real Story Behind Egypt Israeli Peace Deal". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

  David Brainerd

  Inspirational, Sobriety, Firsts

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.491

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• I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover.

  Liam Neeson

  Parent, Pushovers, Knows

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• I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

  Donatella Versace

  Mother, Florence, Degrees

  Interview with Nicki Minaj, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 8, 2011.

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• Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke. I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be heard in dutch clocks. Not," said Mrs. Sparsit, with a lofty sense of giving strict evidence, " That I would convey any imputation on his moral character. Far from it.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Winter, Giving

  Charles Dickens “Hard Times”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year. I have a strict rule: I don't work on Halloween and I won't travel on Halloween. Not for any reason.

  Simon Sinek

  Halloween, Favorite Day, Years

  "Look On The Bright Side: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Morning, Yoga, Dancing

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• Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

  Max Weber

  Accomplishment, Today, Lifetime

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• We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the interior of our cells, driving them, providing the oxidative energy that sends us out for the improvement of each shining day, are the mitochondria, and in a strict sense they are not ours.

  Lewis Thomas

  Cells, Shining, Energy

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

  Martin Filler

  Museums, Views, Design

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• I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

  Felix Dennis

  Writing, People, Care

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