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Vigorous writing is concise. -- William Strunk, Jr.
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. -- William Strunk, Jr.
Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution. -- Lydia Sigourney
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy. -- Geoff Mulgan
Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education. -- Baden Powell de Aquino
Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on. -- Jan Peter Balkenende
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 actual copyright infringement is the right move. -- Edward Felten
Physical fitness takes commitment to exercise just as it requires good nutrition. But it doesn't have to be painful. Just the opposite: Vigorous exercise actually is stimulating. It boosts your energy levels, invigorates your mind, and just feels good afterward. The hardest part, of course, is getting started. -- Jack LaLanne
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking. -- Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. -- Samuel Johnson
Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come. -- Henry Rollins
If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy. -- Milton Glaser
My issue isn't about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit. -- Rob Lowe
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth. -- Charles Spurgeon
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame. -- Lady Bird Johnson
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. -- Paul Dudley White
There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all. -- Erik Erikson
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 submit. -- 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 the entire fabric is doomed. -- Emma Goldman
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. -- Eric Hoffer
Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop. -- Albert Ellis
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 which it is not safe to thwart. -- Learned Hand
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be. -- John Heywood
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. -- Herodotus
Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy. -- Virgil Goode
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. -- Robert Fortune
I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television. -- James Dobson
I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it. -- Dave Reichert
A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you. -- Tom Freston
You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat! -- Jack LaLanne
The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples. -- George Edward Woodberry
I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously. -- Laura Hillenbrand
I'm virile, vigorous, and potent! -- G. Gordon Liddy
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement. -- Leland Ryken
A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid. -- Henry Watson Fowler
Umpires are most vigorous when defending their miscalls. -- Jim Brosnan
True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy. -- Janet Poppendieck
A bold, vigorous assault has won many a faltering cause. -- Ira C. Eaker
People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable. -- Bertrand Russell
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties. -- Abigail Adams
We are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the President encourages vigorous debate. -- Karen Hughes
There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous. -- Mitch Daniels
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. -- Samuel Johnson
If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise -- Alfred North Whitehead
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking -- Samuel Johnson
Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident. -- John Owen
Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang. -- John Galsworthy
There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding. -- Erik Erikson
Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative. -- Ernest Hemingway
Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself. -- C. S. Lewis
The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind. -- Mortimer Collins
I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate. -- Karen Hughes
Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous. -- Lucy Larcom
A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts. -- Joseph Alsop
He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil. -- Ovid
Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp. -- Paul S. Kemp
My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates. -- Dennis Kucinich
One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part. -- Randolph Bourne
A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people. -- Andrew Weil
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. -- George Santayana
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers. -- Robin Williams
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person. -- Sally Field
There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous. -- Gerrit Smith
Donald Trump is somebody who I think likes to mix it up and to have a vigorous debate. -- Barack Obama
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. -- Rene Descartes
The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures. -- Rick Moody
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness. -- George Eliot
For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed. -- Anthony Daniels
We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery. -- Joseph Stalin
Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive. -- Samuel Johnson
True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you. -- Brad Warner
Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us. -- Andrew Miller
The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep. -- Aristotle
The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself,--the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand. -- Stevie Smith
The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice. -- John Stuart Mill
After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate. -- Vin Weber
Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves. -- George Vaillant
Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis. -- Dalton Trumbo
We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries. -- John Ortberg
The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector. -- Ronald Reagan
The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation. -- Pope John XXIII
The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics. -- Bertrand Russell
I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface. -- John Ruskin
Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and light. -- Ken Macrorie
It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds. -- B. F. Skinner
Want and effective demand are not the same thing. If they were, the poorest nations would be the ones to display the most vigorous demand. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera. -- Judith Martin
... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve. -- Susan Sontag
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 concerned. -- John F. Kennedy
The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way. -- Jon Meacham
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 parents. -- Jennifer Garner
Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. -- George Washington
There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress. -- Samuel Johnson
In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier. -- Robert E. Howard
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 daily work. -- Albert Pinkham Ryder
I proceeded to take that mitten full of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion. -- Frank Zappa
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth... -- Sinclair Lewis
I like white wine when it's young and vigorous. I don't think you should cellar white wine at all, unless it's white Burgundy, and definitely not nonvintage Champagne. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST THE MINION OF GODLESSNESS AND ATHEISM. -- J. Edgar Hoover
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted." -- Albert Camus
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted. -- Albert Camus
My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader. -- Matt Wagner
The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment. -- Blaise Pascal
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 or sustained leisure time activity. -- Paul Zane Pilzer
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'. -- Paul J. Meyer

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