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• Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.

  Robert Musil

  Life, Determination, Intellectual

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.34, University of Chicago Press

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• My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.

  Mark Twain

  Father, Boys, Broken

  Mark Twain (2014). “Short Stories And Sketches (Annotated Edition)”, p.395, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.

  Aristotle

  Government, Tyrants, Justice

  Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.69, Princeton University Press

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• Sven must have neglected to pay tribute to one of those strict Nordic gods. But instead of cursing Eriksson himself, Thor has done a still crueller thing and cursed the England strikers. I can only assume that Eriksson was never informed of this curse, otherwise he might have more than a 17-year-old up his sleeve.

  Simon Barnes

  Soccer, Football, Years

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• There is another method of obtaining money... It does not presuppose the existence of accumulated results of previous development, and hence may be considered as the only one which is available in strict logic. This method of obtaining money is the creation of purchasing power by banks. The form it takes is immaterial.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Doe, Development, May

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• The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away ones worldly goods.

  Kathy Baker

  Giving, Quaker, Goods

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• Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Exercise, Rights, Law

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• With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, Age, Degrees

  "David Byrne: 'It feels like the end of history in pop music'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012.

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• In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.

  Missy Peregrym

  Trying, Pesticides, Bigs

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• I love my parents and they're wonderful people, but they were strict, and I still look for ways to get even. When I got my own apartment for the very first time and they came to stay with me for the weekend, I made them stay in separate bedrooms.

  Elayne Boosler

  Weekend, People, Parent

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• The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Self, May

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.305

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• I believe it is of particular importance in our day, when Satan is raging in the hearts of men in so many new and subtle ways, that our choices and decisions be made carefully, consistent with the goals and objectives by which we profess to live. We need unequivocal commitment to the commandments and strict adherence to sacred covenants. When we allow rationalizations to prevent us from temple endowments, worthy missions, and temple marriage, they are particularly harmful. It is heartbreaking when we profess belief in these goals yet neglect the everyday conduct required to achieve them.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Believe, Heart, Commitment

  "Choose Wisely". Quentin L. Cook’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2014.

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• Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .

  Lionel Shriver

  Secret

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.201, Counterpoint Press

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• Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement of the rectangular plates followed a strict logic in that the plates tilted away and towards the center line in an asymmetrical counterpoint. However, the perception of the sculpture contradicts the logic of its relation to the site. As you walk inbetween the plates you see fragments, you see the work in part, you cannot grasp the whole.

  Richard Serra

  Axes, Perception, Sculpture

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• I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.

  Steve Jobs

  Art, Thinking, People

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• We have strict orders: If we talk about it we get fined $50,000.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Order, Nba

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• I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I wont be getting out of line anytime soon.

  Alexa Vega

  Mother, Lines, Raised

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• Atheist, in the strict and proper sense of the word, is one who does not believe in the existence of a god, or who owns no being superior to nature. It is compounded of the two terms ... signifying without God.

  Richard Watson

  Atheist, Believe, Two

  Richard Watson (1832). “A Biblical and theological dictionary”, p.113

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• I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America.

  John F. Kerry

  Running, America, Atheism

  "Kerry: Bush's Vatican appeal 'inappropriate'". www.cnn.com. June 15, 2004.

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• Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.

  Mason Cooley

  Criticism, Evidence, Psychoanalysis

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• The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Opposites, Decision, Soil

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1968). “Addresses to the German nation”

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• But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ... In nothing do England and the Continent at the present moment more strikingly differ than in the prominence which is now given to the idea of science there, and the neglect in which this idea still lies here; a neglect so great that we hardly even know the use of the word science in its strict sense, and only employ it in a secondary and incorrect sense.

  Matthew Arnold

  Education, Lying, Science

  Matthew Arnold, George William Erskine Russell, Thomas Burnett Smart (1904). “The Works of Matthew Arnold”

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• I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.

  Will Rogers

  Names, America, Ems

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.23, Rowman & Littlefield

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• All that the Lord requires of us is strict obedience to the laws of life. All the sacrifice that the Lord asks of his people is strict obedience to our own covenants that we have made with our God, and that is to serve him with an undivided heart.

  Brigham Young

  Heart, Sacrifice, Law

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• I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.

  Ralph Allen

  Awards, Years, Discipline

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