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Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal. -- William Shakespeare
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust. -- Alan Rickman
Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. -- Kofi Annan
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. -- Emily Dickinson
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. -- George Eliot
Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers. -- Douglas Wilder
The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech. -- Jay Sekulow
Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science. -- Halton Arp
Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost -- Burt Rutan
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. -- Douglas Adams
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures. -- David K. Shipler
Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials. -- William J. Brennan
Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby, -- Sheryl Sandberg
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 passions, or with very vigorous faculties. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this ... -- Stevie Smith
We are a strong, robust, and prosperous nation. Optimism is the essence of our success. It drives our creativity and emboldens our entrepreneurial spirit. It is what makes us invest in the future and accomplish our highest aims. -- Bill Frist
Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific. -- Bill Cosby
Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough. -- Anthony Stafford Beer
No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul. -- Alexander Cockburn
Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then reason cannot help but lead us to Him. Cogito, ergo Deus est,'says St. Augustine, I think, therefore God is. -- Donna Woolfolk Cross
We've got some very strong and robust ladies, but, when your life is at risk, I think the strain of that in a competitive situation will tell when you're trying to win. The mental stress I think would be pretty difficult for a lady to deal with in a practical fashion. I just don't think they have aptitude to win a Formula 1 race. -- Stirling Moss
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. -- Chinua Achebe
From the outset, the Obama administration has recognized that building a robust skills infrastructure means building strong partnerships with community colleges. -- Thomas Perez
Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success. -- Alan Autry
Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes. -- Steve Jobs
The Biblical world view sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of a wise God's creation and... therefore robust, resilient, and self-regulating, like the product of any good engineer. -- Christopher Monckton
Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are. -- John Abizaid
When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases. -- Nicholas Stern
Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders. -- Bob Barr
I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both. -- Ed Rendell
I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then replicates them and makes a more robust version in different colors, with a pocket for my mic pack. -- Marina and the Diamonds
For years, members of Congress have heard from constituents who want them to protect the nation from crime, terrorism and intellectual property violation. They have not faced equally robust demands that online rights and freedoms be preserved. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future. -- John Olver
We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor. -- Jerry Bridges
By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins. -- Ingrid Newkirk
The key to sauces is having patience. I'm not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That's where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another. -- Kelis
In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely. -- Nathan Myhrvold
The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again. -- Simon Mainwaring
My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things. -- Morag Joss
If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.' -- Mitch Daniels
But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.' -- Mitch Daniels
Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
For the robust, an error is information. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Compassion: a robust dance between grace and wisdom. -- Soul Dancer
Governance is key to a robust Health IT system. -- Dick Taylor
Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak. -- Giambattista Vico
Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were. -- Susie Orbach
The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe. -- Claude Bernard
Joy is spiritual and far grittier than happiness, and far more robust. -- Laurel Mellin
A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm. -- Bill Bryson
I have a robust sense of humour which helps me deal with problems. -- Peter Mayle
I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists. -- Vladimir Nabokov
The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger. -- Toni Morrison
The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations. -- Steve Case
When people are healthy and not hungry, they are stronger workers building a robust economy. -- Charles B. Rangel
For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes. -- Mark Twain
If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony. -- Xun Zi
Friends always say you don't realise how robust your baby is until you drop it. -- Emily Watson
A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust. -- George Orwell
The most important thing as a comic and a creator is to have a robust standpoint. -- Heather McDonald
The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives. -- Cornel West
The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech. -- Jay Sekulow
The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else. -- Martin Seligman
The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be. -- Daniel Goleman
My plant-based diet plus fish is to credit for my low blood pressure, high energy, and robust immunity. -- David H. Murdock
I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been. -- Juliet Stevenson
We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target. -- Alexei Mordashov
A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be. -- Werner Herzog
I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy. -- Ed Pastor
I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them. -- Thomas Keller
We want to offer job training and mentoring and build the site with more robust, reliable and flexible technology. -- Craig Newmark
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar. -- Adam Lambert
I am very strong & robust & not of the delicate sex nor of the fair but of the deficent in look ... -- Marjorie Fleming
Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank. -- Ben Bernanke
Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples. -- George Eliot
The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque. -- Marisa Silver
GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets. -- Jack Welch
I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust. -- Christopher Hitchens
The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths. -- Wallace Stevens
By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them. -- Charles Kennedy
Our deep collaboration with ABC News further strengthens Yahoo! as the No. 1 online news source, greatly enhancing our already robust news content. -- Ross Levinsohn
The first official statements of President Asif Ali Zardari's new government have been firm and robust. Pakistan is obviously a renewed democracy. -- David Petraeus
When an idea is not robust enough to stand expression in simple terms, it is a sign that it should be rejected. -- Luc de Clapiers
I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist. -- Boris Johnson
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict. -- Hannah More
Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost. -- Burt Rutan
For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job. -- J. D. Hayworth
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly. -- W. Somerset Maugham
There are things that man is not meant to interfere with, and the robust yet fragile temper of a woman is one of them. -- youssef
The UK is an extraordinary partner for America and a force for good in an unstable world. I hope it remains strong, robust and united. -- Barack Obama
There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide. -- Rhianna Pratchett
Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child. -- Steven Weinberg
Climate change is a reality and if left unchecked, rising ocean tides will harm Georgia's Atlantic coast and threaten our state's robust tourism and shipping industries. -- James L. Barksdale
Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement. -- Peter Kreeft
The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good. -- Barack Obama
You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it. -- William Thorsell
As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain. -- Nina Fedoroff
I think Facebook is an extraordinarily important part of the Internet ecosystem, and having a robust presence there is a critical part of any brand (or company's) strategy. -- John Battelle
It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science. -- Marilynne Robinson
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable. -- Gustav Mahler
In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies. -- Felix Rohatyn
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon. -- Alice James
When the gospel enters our work in a robust way, there's a deep encouragement and renewed sense of purpose that people begin to experience sometimes for the first time. -- David Kim
Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood. -- Julian Baggini
In 2006, the global economy was doing well. In India, the political and economic situation was stable. All key macroeconomic indicators reflected an economy that was in robust good health. -- Baba Kalyani
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.' -- Tom Paulin
Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It's communication. Can't we be friendly? -- Jeremy Irons
Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world. -- Paul Theroux
Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal, and reexamination. -- William O. Douglas
Our economy is robust and will remain strong as more Americans who want a job find one. Republican economic policies based on tax relief are working for the American people. -- Dennis Hastert
It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language. -- Rob Delaney

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