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Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Rigorous teaching schedules combined with mounds of paperwork can lead to burnout. -- Lourdes Garcia-Navarro
Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability -- Gordon Brown
Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at the controls)." -- Kingsley Amis
Love is never giving up and yet a lot of surrender. Self-care. Truth. Trust. Openness. Growth. Courage. Faith. Collaboration. Compassion. Communication. Affection. Support. Passion. Joy. Warmth. Mindfulness. Rigorous self-work. Sympatico, empathy, flow. Forgiveness. -- Claudia Black
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion? -- Oliver Heaviside
Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack." -- Robin McKinley
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only." -- Jemima Khan
West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view." -- James Salter
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance." -- Mignon McLaughlin
Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over." -- Edmund Husserl
The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class. -- Adam Driver
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form." -- Toni Morrison
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. -- Toni Morrison
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button." -- Christopher Lasch
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. -- Christopher Lasch
The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously. -- Jeb Bush
It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions." -- Alana Stewart
... was after all a rather mature blossom, such as could be plucked from the stem only by a rigorous jerk." -- Henry James
Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money." -- Michael Porter
I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing." -- Terry Eagleton
Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money. -- Michael Porter
Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations." -- John Quincy Adams
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs. -- Felix Klein
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. -- Jack Welch
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand." -- Jack Welch
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction." -- Jacques Derrida
Don't confuse a kid whining for a treat with the argument of a rigorous, logical mind," he had said, as logical as ever." -- Miyuki Miyabe
In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian." -- Rory Bremner
Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact" -- Henri Cartier Bresson
Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of intense communication." -- Georges Bataille
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism." -- Barbara Kruger
Since a fully mature, rigorous vine will fully use 60 square feet or more spacings closer than 6x10 for wine grapes aren't usually recommended in America." -- Jeff Cox
My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results. -- Andrew Mitchell
My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results." -- Andrew Mitchell
Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law." -- Augustine of Hippo
But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science." -- David Brin
Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring. -- Geoff Mulgan
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. -- Ezra Pound
All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism." -- Saint Basil
All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism. -- Saint Basil
At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory." -- James Tobin
I wanted to study them all; obviously, not as a specialist, but still rigorously, working directly from texts, because I have a horror of improvisation and hearsay learning." -- Mircea Eliade
Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people." -- Helen Clark
When grace is given it comes to us as joy, maybe, but it can also be earned, I am convinced, through the rigorous examination of the sources of pain." -- May Sarton
What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous a level as psychopharmacology. -- Eric Kandel
When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos..." -- Anne Fadiman
I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it. -- Ezra Koenig
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Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families. -- Mitt Romney
Thinking is a tiring process; it is much easier to accept beliefs passively than to think them out, rigorously questioning their grounds by asking what are the consequences that follow from them." -- L. Susan Stebbing
That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year. -- Peter Jurasik
Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree." -- Sophie Germain
That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year." -- Peter Jurasik
Complexity demands resilience, and that's what panarchy offers. Resilience in the face of complexity is a challenge even when you apply rigorous intelligence and integrity to develop a coherent and flexible strategy." -- Robert David Steele
Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century. -- David Chalmers
As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter:genuine claritygenuine feelingthe right wordthe exact English sentencethe eloquent detailthe rigorous dramatization of story" -- Richard Yates
NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government." -- Bob Inglis
When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging. -- Moby
People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
The wire is a safe place for me to be. The street is not. Life is not. It's a rigorous and simple path. It's straight. You don't have meanders like, you know, on the ground, in life. -- Philippe Petit
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. Gravity, a mysterious carriage of the body to conceal the defects of the mind." -- Ezra Pound
There are many hypotheses in science that are wrong. That's perfectly alright; it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny." -- Carl Sagan
There is in the soul a desire for not thinking.For being still. Coupled with thisa desire to be strict, yes, and rigorous.But the soul is also a smooth son of a bitch,not always trustworthy. And I forgot that." -- Raymond Carver
There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful." -- Leroy Chiao
As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years." -- Major Taylor
There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful. -- Leroy Chiao
Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe." -- Martin Luther
The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science. -- Edward Sapir
For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire. Even now their whispers pierce the gloom: What dost thou in this living tomb?" -- Matthew Arnold
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. -- Marquis de Sade
Likewise, if we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate." -- Carl Sagan
Woe to the investigator so in love with his new idea that he neglects to test it rigorously against received wisdom; woe also to the investigator so in love with his old conceptions that he refuses to weigh the merits of a new insight." -- J.L. Heilbron
I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain." -- Emily Mortimer
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks." -- Maria Montessori
I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place. -- bell hooks
Whereas easy appeals to mystery prematurely shut off reflection about God, rigorous and earnest effort to understand him is richly rewarded with deeper appreciation of who he is, more confidence in his reality and care, and a more intelligent and profound worship of his person." -- William Lane Craig
Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify." -- Reinhold Niebuhr
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis." -- Henri Cartier Bresson
...the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be "protected" from collapsing. (p. 21)" -- Robin R. Meyers
Nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character." -- Winston Churchill
As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present." -- Alexander Kluge
Their books are also different. Works of fiction contain a single plot, with all its imaginable permutations. Those of a philosophical nature invariably include both the thesis and the antithesis, the rigorous pro and con of a doctrine. A book which does not contain its counterbook is considered incomplete." -- Jorge Luis Borges
If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate. Figuring out a prudent balance takes wisdom." -- Carl Sagan
Now, come over here so I can pat you down.""But you don't have-" Percy stoppedUh, sure."He stood next to the armless statue. Terminus conducted a rigorous mental pat down."You seem to be clean," Terminus decidedDo you have anything to declare?""Yes," Percy saidI declare that this is stupid." -- Rick Riordan
We may at once admit that any inference from the particular to the general must be attended with some degree of uncertainty, but this is not the same as to admit that such inference cannot be absolutely rigorous, for the nature and degree of the uncertainty may itself be capable of rigorous expression." -- Sir Ronald Fisher
...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged in the interests of group cohesion, and that learning to be critical and to think conceptually and rigorously do not come easily to the young but are hard-fought victories." -- Neil Postman
He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense." -- Julian Barnes
We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not - nor will we ever - monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect the civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources." -- Janet Napolitano
Anne's is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity." -- Jude Morgan
IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral part of a well-rounded life, including a daily regimen of rigorous physical exercise, rewarding personal relationships, and sensible low-fat diet. A book should not be used a as a substitute or an excuse." -- Garrison Keillor
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I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence." -- Michael Eric Dyson
...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born..." -- Marquis de Sade
Well, Kessa, I am glad to see that you're taking your body seriously. I shudder when I see the girls leaving class and heading for the nearest hamburger, coke, and French fry station.The thought of them pouring all those dead calories into themselves makes me want to cry. You'd think after a rigorous dance class they'd have more respect for their bodies." -- Steven Levenkron
While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even more astonishing than those of the past, it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice." -- Robert S. Mulliken
I would rather be right than rigorous. -- Stephen Hawking
There is no rigorous definition of rigor. -- Morris Kline
He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous. -- George Herbert
Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack. -- Robin McKinley
Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing. -- Orson Scott Card
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. -- Mark Twain
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others. -- John Wesley
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. -- Gregory Bateson
Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative. -- Richard Rorty
Be rigorous about your HR decisions. There is a difference between rigorous and ruthless. -- James C. Collins
Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations. -- Stephen Batchelor
We will also have a more rigorous approach to professional development and managing unsatisfactory performance. -- Jay Weatherill
Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over. -- Edmund Husserl
Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections. -- F.B. Meyer
Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp. -- Paul S. Kemp
true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude -- William Wilberforce
Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible. -- Elena Ferrante
We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits. -- Thomas Jefferson
Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless. -- Thomas S. Monson

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