Vigorous Quotes

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Will now allow Reno to claim she is doing a vigorous investigation of campaign financing, when in reality Judicial Watch's public depositions show she is… — Larry Klayman
Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during some season of… — Charles Darwin
There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous. — Gerrit Smith
The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads… — Max Stirner
Umpires are most vigorous when defending their miscalls. — Jim Brosnan
There is a time to go ahead and a time to stay behind. There is a time to breathe easy and time to breathe hard.… — Laozi
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is… — Alfred North Whitehead
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. — Rene Descartes
Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. This… — Jack Kornfield
In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a… — Matt Blunt
It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was perhaps the most… — Benjamin Tucker
Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . . As it prods… — Janet Lembke
This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the sun deserves to… — William Harvey
Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular… — Paul Zane Pilzer
It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little… — Fred Brooks
Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination… — Learned Hand
The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as… — Ludwig von Mises
No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and… — William Wilberforce
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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