Vigorous Quotes

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My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates. — Dennis Kucinich
Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on official… — Jack Kerouac
Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of… — Edward Felten
A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's… — Albert Pinkham Ryder
Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them… — William Melmoth
The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On… — Napoleon Bonaparte
I do not believe there ever was any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch in those days.… — Theodore Roosevelt
It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious… — William Osler
The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in… — Theodore Roosevelt
True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation.... The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems. Levin's fearless willingness… — Molly Peacock
In old grimy streets, in isolated and decaying houses, sometimes far from the Vieux Carre, in little used and secluded cemeteries, there still sluggishly circulates… — Clarence John Laughlin
This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by… — George Gissing
There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are… — John F. Kennedy
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was… — John Dryden
If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my… — Jennifer Garner
Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will… — George III
Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until… — Emma Goldman

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