Scrupulously Quotes
26 quotes by 26 authors
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It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be…
— Samuel Smiles
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Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to…
— Norm MacDonald
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If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when…
— George Washington
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Unlike scandal-monger Ed Klein’s fantastical No. 1 best-selling narrative about the supposed Blood Feud between the Clintons and the Obamas, Halper’s study is juicy and…
— Lloyd Grove
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Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously…
— Grover Cleveland
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It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or…
— Mary Douglas
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I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must learn to work…
— Alexander Kotov
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then…
— Alan Alda
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Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
— Bertrand Russell
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Those who would practice magic must be scrupulously honest in their personal lives. In one sense, magic works on the principle that 'it is so…
— Starhawk
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Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is never made a…
— Romain Rolland
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Absorbing. . . . Scrupulously reported . . . illuminates today’s Middle East. . . . The ‘least interventionist of any modern president,’ the father…
— Carlo Wolff
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Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but…
— Rupert Friend
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The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world…
— David Graeber
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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
— Luc de Clapiers
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew…
— Milan Kundera
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Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a…
— Barry Lopez
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