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  I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Funny, Gun, Want

  "RJ Eskow: Confessions of a Gun Lover". Huffington Post, April 18, 2007.

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• It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Littles

  Dwight L Moody (1958). “Talks to Christians”, p.22, Moody Publishers

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• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• One must be strict even in little things.

  James Boswell

  Littles, Little Things

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• You can’t be good to others if you’re not strict with yourself. The more shallow you are with yourself, the harsher you are with others. The more profound you are with yourself, the more generous you are with others

  Tariq Ramadan

  Profound, Shallow, Be Good

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• My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Grateful, Parent, Suffering

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• Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

  Teresa of Avila

  Inspirational, Humility, Catholic

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

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• The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

  Noam Chomsky

  Smart, Passivity Is, People

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.234, Soft Skull Press

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• I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

  Beverly Cleary

  Law, Grew Up, Leashes

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• Unfortunately there are some trends that are changing this but you don't have for example as strict and narrow understanding of the relationship between men and women. And then there is the philosophy we have to extract in the relationship between text and culture.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophy, Men, Understanding

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Democracies Have, Democracy, Existence

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• Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Long, Honor, World

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.157

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• It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Overcoming, Charity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Grounded

  "Chloë Moretz: 'I'm not cussing and killing people - I'm normal'". Interview With Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• A good Muslim is not one who is strictest in his judgment, but who is most patient in listening.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Patience, Listening, Patient

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• More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational, Future, Government

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• I don't have storyboards, but I have some very strict rules, like not moving the camera.

  Lucile Hadzihalilovic

  Moving, Cameras, Strict Rules

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Sarcastic, Art

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

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• My mom was definitely very strict with me.

  Gloria Estefan

  Mom, My Mom

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• I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.

  Nick Offerman

  Pounds, Moderation, Appetite

  "Ron Swanson of Parks & Rec vs. Nick Offerman: The Food Interview". Interview with Elina Shatkin, www.laweekly.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

  Max Weber

  Unity, Administration, Cost

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.214, Routledge

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• If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.

  Confucius

  People, And Love, Attention

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• She boasted the general battle-ax demeanor of an especially strict governess. This was the kind of woman who took her tea black, smoked cigars after midnight, played a mean game of cribbage, and kept a bevy of repulsive little dogs. Alexia liked her immediately.

  Gail Carriger

  Dog, Mean, Games

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• He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

  John Milton

  Fate, Left

  John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.351

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• We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

  William James

  Character, Fate, Evil

  "The Principles of Psychology". Book by William James, 1890.

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