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• Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

  George III

  Country, Mother, Mean

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• My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mom, Parent, Important

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• I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.

  Sally Field

  Real, Granted, Physical Attraction

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• When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.

  John Owen

  Water, May, Quiet

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.11, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television.

  James Dobson

  Gay, Rose, People

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• At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness-not crimes and scandals.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Clever, Fighting, Ideas

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• Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless. But if one insists in a photograph that is both complex and vigorous it is almost impossible

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, World, Impossible

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• Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Tragedy, Youth, Carols

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.402, Penguin

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• Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Exercise, Soul

  Jonathan Edwards “The Blank Affections: The Religious Affections with Blank Pages Interleaved”, Lulu.com

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• I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.

  James C. Collins

  People, Way, Debate

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• It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.

  B. F. Skinner

  Effort, Mind, Behaviour

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• Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something more than logic, he believed, makes mathematics what it is.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Opponents, Logic, Mathematics

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• Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

  John Muir

  Home, Adventure, Environmental

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.364, Library of America

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• We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I’d met him was that he was never afraid. You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call “the Planet of Earth.

  Donna Tartt

  People, Childhood, World

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• But tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble’s soul; his heart was waterproof. Like washable beaver hats that improve with rain, his nerves were rendered stouter and more vigorous, by showers of tears, which, being tokens of weakness, and so far tacit admissions of his own power, pleased and exalted him.

  Charles Dickens

  Rain, Heart, Soul

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist”, p.272, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Education, Children, Science

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• Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Curiosity, Progress

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.37

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• Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Character, Fighting

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.41, Random House

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• Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.

  George Orwell

  Children, Writing, Thinking

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Writing, Simple, Wish

  Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1931). “The King's English”, Oxford University Press

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• The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly alive in the work of our time.

  Walter Lippmann

  Moving, Light, Diversity

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.77, Harvard University Press

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• Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Luxury, Politics

  Essays, Second Series "New England Reformers" (1844)

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• Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. And thus, by perpetually pushing and assurance, it puts a difficulty out of countenance, and makes a seeming impossibility give way.

  Jeremy Collier

  Hope, Heart, Men

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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• Hopes have precarious life.
  They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off
  In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Growth, Withered

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4195, Delphi Classics

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• Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

  John Owen

  Self, Soul, Sin

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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