Strictest Quotes
31 quotes by 31 authors
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It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who…
— Brutus Hamilton
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I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.
— Andrew Carnegie
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The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent on…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before…
— Saint Augustine
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Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.
— Auguste Escoffier
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Out of man's mind in free play comes the creation Science. It renews itself, like the generations, thanks to an activity which is the best…
— Jacques Barzun
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It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.
— Dion Fortune
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I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear,…
— Christopher Hampton
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From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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A good Muslim is not one who is strictest in his judgment, but who is most patient in listening.
— Tariq Ramadan
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
— Immanuel Kant
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Failure and success are not accidents, but the strictest justice.
— Alexander Smith
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Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome…
— Jurgen Habermas
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The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If…
— Elizabeth Aston
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In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above…
— Robert Dale Owen
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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and…
— Bob Barr
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The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who…
— Charles Churchill
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Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it…
— Anthony Trollope
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