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

  Mason Cooley

  Criticism, Evidence, Psychoanalysis

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• In the strict formulation of the law of causality—if we know the present, we can calculate the future—it is not the conclusion that is wrong but the premise.
  On an implication of the uncertainty principle.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Future, Uncertainty Principle, Law

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• I'm on a strict running program. I started yesterday. I've only missed one day so far.

  Kevin Nealon

  Running, Yesterday, One Day

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• If the potential of every number is in the monad, then the monad would be intelligible number in the strict sense, since it is not yet manifesting anything actual, but everything conceptually together in it.

  Iamblichus

  Numbers, Together, Would Be

  "The Theology of Arithmetic". Translated by Robin Waterfield: "The Theology of Arithmetic: On the Mystical, Mathematical and Cosmological Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers", 1988.

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• There were very strict social conventions, and you adhered to it, and I think it gave you a lot of character. When a man said something, he meant it. He wasn't kidding around. There were no jokes involved. Nobody was in the mood to joke unless you hit a guy with a baseball bat.

  Jack Kirby

  Baseball, Character, Men

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• In terms of bullying, there are so many new laws in America, I am not sure about worldwide, but in America, the laws for bullying are getting strict. And I am really excited of how strict they are and I think it has cut down on a lot of bullying. As a kid I was a bully and I was bullied. I lived both sides of it. To see what is being done with bullying now is super important.

  Tyra Banks

  Bullying, Kids, Cutting

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• The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Views, Ideas

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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• [Graphics] is a strict and simple system of signs, which anyone can learn to use and which leads to better understanding.

  Jacques Bertin

  Simple, Design, Understanding

  Jacques Bertin (1981). “Graphics and Graphic Information Processing”, p.1, Walter de Gruyter

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• It is easy for men to give advice, but difficult for one's self to follow; we have an example in physicians: for their patients they order a strict regime, for themselves, on going to bed, they do all that they have forbidden to others.

  Philemon

  Men, Self, Order

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• Simplicity is a strict taskmaster.

  Mason Cooley

  Simplicity

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• Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%... While support for strict gun-control laws usually has been strongest in large cities, where crime rates are highest, that's precisely where right-to-carry laws have produced the largest drops in violent crimes.

  John R. Lott Jr.

  Gun, Law, Cities

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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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• The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Book, Taken, Hands

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

  Caroline Corr

  Home, School, Night

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  School, Religion, Important

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

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• I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.

  Charlie Watts

  Change, Use, Rooms

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.

  Danny Boyle

  Practice, Catholic

  Interview with Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. March 14, 2007.

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• A man develops a subtle power as a result of the strict observance of celibacy for twelve years. Then he can understand and grasp very subtle things which otherwise elude his intellect. Through that understanding the aspirant can have direct vision of God. That pure understanding alone enables him to realize Truth.

  Ramakrishna

  Inspirational, Men, Years

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• Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an unspoken agreement whereby we are given leave to bend the rules of the strictest morality, provided we do so quietly and discreetly. Hypocrisy is the grease that keeps society functioning in an agreeable way, by allowing for human fallibility and reconciling the seemingly irreconcilable human needs for order and pleasure.

  Janet Malcolm

  Agreement, Hands, Order

  "The Journalist and the Murderer". Book by Janet Malcolm, 1989.

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• He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide.... Yes, 86 percent of the passersby voted to ban water (H2O) from the environment. Maybe that's what really happened to all the water on Mars.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, People, Water

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

  Zebulon Pike

  Justice, Growth, Demand

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.145

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• Though not a remarkably precocious child in other respects, she seemed to have very clear and correct views on almost every subject connected with her duty to God and her neighbor; was very truthful both in word and deed, very strict in her observance of the Sabbath - though the rest of the family were by no means particular in that respect - very diligent in her studies, respectful to superiors, and kind to inferiors and equals; and she was gentle, sweet-tempered, patient, and forgiving to a remarkable degree.

  Martha Finley

  Sweet, Children, Mean

  "Elsie Dinsmore".

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