Strictly Quotes
388 quotes by 340 authors
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those…
— Charles Babbage
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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…
— John Berger
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and…
— Johannes Brahms
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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…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date…
— John Henrik Clarke
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If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to…
— Eric Alterman
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The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken.
— Martin Heidegger
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Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too…
— Brother Lawrence
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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…
— Naomi Wolf
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A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.
— Robin Tunney
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Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of…
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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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…
— Joshua Reynolds
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Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call…
— Swami Satchidananda
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.
— John Dewey
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If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But…
— Jason Kidd
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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by…
— Ayn Rand
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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…
— Ayn Rand
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