Quotes with strictly

  • 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.
  • And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
  • 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.

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  • Benoit Mandelbrot A fractal is by definition a set for which the Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension.
    The Fractal Geometry of Nature
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Benjamin Tucker And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Aldous Huxley Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Virginia Woolf 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
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Henry Fielding His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Baz Luhrmann I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Sir Joshua Reynolds 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
    British painter (1723 - 1792)
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  • Plato 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
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • A. Cornelius Celsus Live in rooms full of light; Avoid heavy food; Be moderate in the drinking of wine; Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics; Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water; Change surroundings and take long journeys; Strictly avoid frightening ideas; Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements; Listen to music.
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  • Barbara Jordan 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
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Al Capone My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 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
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Noam Chomsky The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • John Berger 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
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Jean Rostand The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton 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 Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • H. P. Lovecraft Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • Adrian Edmondson We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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