“ If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. ”
- Robert Green Ingersoll- Copy
- 132
“ I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend. ”
- Kenny Cunningham- Copy
- 576
“ The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself. ”
- Thomas L. Masson- Copy
- 290
“ The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. ”
- Jean Rostand- Copy
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“ The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish? ”
- Myrtle Barker- Copy
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“ The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. ”
- John Berger- Copy
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“ My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way. ”
- Al Capone- Copy
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“ It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing. ”
- Sir Joshua Reynolds- Copy
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“ His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. ”
- Henry Fielding- Copy
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“ Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ I have a suggestion that I think would help fight serious crime. Signs. There are lots of signs for minor infractions: No Smoking, Stay Off the Grass, Keep Out, and they seem to work fairly well. I think we should also have signs for major crimes: Murder Strictly Prohibited, NO Raping People, Thank You for Not Kidnapping Anyone… ”
- George Carlin- Copy
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“ Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really. ”
- George Martin- Copy
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“ Your morals and general character are strictly inquired into; it is therefore expected that you will improve every leisure moment in the acquirement of knowledge of your profession and you will recollect that a good moral character is essential to your high standing in the Navy. ”
- Franklin Buchanan- Copy
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“ This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community — the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves. ”
- Andrew Carnegie- Copy
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“ The right to vote is a *consequence*, not a primary cause, of a free social system — and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not? ”
- Plato- Copy
- 346
“ For love… has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together that you cannot separate them. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 109
“ An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth — in short, materialism — does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited. ”
- E. F. Schumacher- Copy
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