Robust Quotes - Page 3

• With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong consumption, and a robust and resilient economy, Southeast Asia presents a compelling growth opportunity for Starbucks.

  Howard Schultz

  Strong, Opportunity, Class

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• You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.

  Bill Bryson

  Average, Hydrogen Bomb, Energy

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• A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Summer, Memories, Reality

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”, p.57, Penguin UK

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• It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Over the years, as the memory of Sophie Mol ... slowly faded, the Loss of Sophie Mol grew robust and alive. It was always there. Like a fruit in season. Every season. As permanent as a government job.

  Arundhati Roy

  Jobs, Memories, Loss

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.16, Penguin Books India

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• In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Real, Ideas, People

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• The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, Tools, Social Transformation

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• What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.

  James P. Hoffa

  Country, Unions, Trends

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• If we use these common standards as the foundation for better schools, we can give all kids a robust curriculum taught by well prepared, well supported teachers who can help prepare them for success in college, life and careers.

  Randi Weingarten

  Teacher, Educational, Kids

  "Governors announce cross-state education guidelines for U.S. students" by Sally Holland, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.

  Boris Johnson

  Believe, Males, Female

  "Boris Johnson denies being sexist towards female politicians" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2012.

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• We need to be protecting American citizens who are here, out of work, and hurting today-minorities, Blacks and Whites and all colors and races that are hurting today with high unemployment, but we seem to be more focused on how we can ram through this Senate a bill that would legalize millions and create an even more robust guest worker program. There are not enough jobs now. Give me a break.

  Jeff Sessions

  Hurt, Jobs, Race

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• One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.

  Penn Jillette

  Magic, Sometimes, Disaster

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People get sick and sometimes they get better and sometimes they don't. And it doesn't matter if the sickness is cancer or if it's depression. Sometimes the drugs work and sometimes they don't. Sometimes the drugs work for a while and then they stop. Sometimes the alternative stuff works and sometimes it doesn't. And sometimes you wonder if no outside interference makes any difference at all; if an illness is like a storm, if it simply has to run its course and, at the end of it, depending on how robust you are, you will be alive. Or you will be dead.

  Marian Keyes

  Running, Cancer, Differences

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• In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Children, Achievement, Adults

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• Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.

  Julian Baggini

  Giving, Events, Arms

  "Why the white cliffs of Dover are so special" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.

  Victor Hugo

  Twilight, Joy, Being Sad

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• Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive.
  They are supersensitive.
  They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas,
  long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Artist, Long, Poison

  "Physicist, Purge Thyself". Chicago Tribune Magazine, June 22, 1969.

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• The UK is an extraordinary partner for America and a force for good in an unstable world. I hope it remains strong, robust and united.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, America, World

  The White House @WhiteHouse, twitter.com. September 17, 2014.

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• The selection of MediLab came after an extensive evaluation process. The laboratory in Zambia presented many challenges such as rapidly expanding services and capacity, the need to coordinate laboratory services for 16 and soon to be 24 clinics in the Lusaka district alone, the need to automate recording and dissemination of results and the need for a robust, expandable, user friendly and technically supported LIMS system. The technology and international experience of MediSolution made MediLab an obvious choice.

  Craig Wilson

  Technology, Zambia, Choices

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• Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government.

  Judd Gregg

  Thinking, Government, Supportive

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• Joy is spiritual and far grittier than happiness, and far more robust.

  Laurel Mellin

  Happiness, Spiritual, Joy

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• I don't like the fact that we're not creating jobs the way we used to create jobs in Pennsylvania. I lament the fact that we're not setting the table for really robust economic development, here in Pennsylvania, where we can do that. I lament the fact that our schools are being hollowed out. We need a fresh start. I think we need to go in a different direction. I think we need a new governor.

  Tom Wolf

  Jobs, School, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Tom Wolf from Sep 23, 2014

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• I could not be more determined and robust about this. I want more children to play cricket and to have the chance to compete. I want them playing on the correct pitches with hard balls and proper headgear.

  Tessa Jowell

  Children, Play, Balls

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• I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.

  Ed Pastor

  Country, Responsibility, Economy

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• Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act.

  Kim Stanley

  Needs, Too Late, Answers

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• I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Regret, Alternatives, Knows

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