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• What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

  John Marshall

  Justice, Democracy, Adherence

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• Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a particular nation, a sense of loyalty to a moral code, and strict adherence to concepts of right and wrong. Chisholm has been obsessed for years with the idea that instilling concepts of right and wrong, love of country and morality in children by their parents is the paramount evil.

  John A. Stormer

  Loyalty, Country, Children

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• In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Destiny, Men, Rights

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1968). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.

  Arturo Sandoval

  Ambition, Reality, Discipline

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• For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.

  William Wordsworth

  Victory And Defeat, Energy, Principles

  William Wordsworth (1857). “The excursion, being a portion of The recluse, a poem”, p.107

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• Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.

  Kevin Spacey

  People, Doe, Attention

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• My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

  John Leguizamo

  Military, Parent, Style

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• I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.

  Anna Paquin

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Anna Paquin is one 'tough cookie'". Interview With Amy Spencer, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2011.

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• I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.

  Dolly Parton

  Cry, Magnolias, Policy

  Twitter post from Jul 10, 2011

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• I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform.

  Jose Carreras

  Good Food, Strict Rules

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• I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished I was a boy. One who traveled, one who never got up out of his Morris chair. Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. I wanted shaving cream in the sink and whistling on the stairs. I wanted pants hung by their cuffs from a dresser drawer. I wanted change jingling in a pocket and the sound of ice cracking in a cocktail glass at five thirty. I wanted to hear my mother laugh behind a closed door.

  Judy Blundell

  Mother, Father, Boys

  Judy Blundell (2010). “What I Saw and How I Lied”, p.61, Scholastic Inc.

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• About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles.

  Clement Freud

  Bird, Insulting, May

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• It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.

  John Yoo

  War, Asking, Terrorist

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• Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.

  Walther Bothe

  Energy, Negative, Conservation

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• When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Artist, Culture, Genius

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• Muslims consider the honor of the Prophet Muhammad to be dearer to them than that of their parents or even themselves. To defend it is considered to be an obligation upon them. The strict punishment if found guilty of this crime under sharia, the Islamic law, is capital punishment implementable by an Islamic State. This is because the Messenger Muhammad said, ‘Whoever insults a Prophet, kill him.’

  Anjem Choudary

  Islamic, Punishment, Law

  "Anjem Choudary says woman who organised Muhammed cartoon contest should face death penalty under Sharia Law" by Christopher Bucktin, www.mirror.co.uk. May 7, 2015.

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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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• Nullification is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a jury, as community conscience, to disregard the strict requirements of law where it finds that those requirements cannot justly be applied in a particular case.

  David L. Bazelon

  Law, Community, Defense

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• I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Book, Writing, Years

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• We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Art, Fighting

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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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• My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life.

  Kelly Brook

  Drug, Rebel, Watches

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.

  Mariano Rivera

  Uncles, Father, Like Family

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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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• But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

  Andrew Motion

  Writing, Way, Modern

  "Ode to a right royal charmer". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.

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