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«An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth / in short, materialism / does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.»
Author: E. F. Schumacher
(Economist, Founder)
| Keywords:
contains, fulfillment, in short, limiting, minded, placed, single-minded, strictly, The single
«Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing»
Author: Joshua Reynolds
(Painter)
| About:
Inventions,
Speech
| Keywords:
deposited, strictly, strictly speaking
«A man wants no protection when his conduct is strictly right»
Author: Lord Mansfield
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strictly
«His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage»
«A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
governed, observed, strictly
«His wardrobe was extensive--very extensive--not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but everything was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles!»
«And strictly meditate the thankless Muse.»
«Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity- these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them.»
«If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
criminal, follow, insane, New Man, Old Testament, strictly, teachings, testament, testaments, The Criminals, The New
«I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
attacks, haste, intervals, miner, miners, seriousness, spurs, strictly, strictly speaking
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