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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln

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.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Today, Old, Follow

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes

Few, State, Laws

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Law, Laws, Decency

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Away, Sense, Scientific

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Jack Benny

Age, Mind, Matter

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
W. H. Auden

History, Study, Questions

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
Elvis Presley

Knows, Bit, Telling

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Science, Idea, Scientific

I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.
Jim Henson

Black, Remember, White

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
Charles Babbage

Between, Difference, Nor

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
LaToya Jackson

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
Johannes Brahms

Real, Old, Keep

When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes.
Susan Orlean

Nothing, Holiday, Halloween

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Jean Rostand

Human, Nobility

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.
Saul Williams

Cool, Party, Elevate

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
Barbara Jordan

Future, Vision, Public

I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.
Katherine Heigl

Work, Time, Diet

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
Edward Norton

Against, Fame, Guard

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.
E. F. Schumacher

Life, Attitude, Short

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Honest, Unless, Kingdom

I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.
Little Richard

Business, Show, Tried

Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Saying, Friendly

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.
Liz Phair

Music, Pretty, Listening

Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
Adam Levine

Love, Feelings, Sometimes

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
Lascelles Abercrombie

Life, Great, Attitude

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.
Tommy Lee Jones

Life, Future, Past

People think I appear on television to promote my image. That's not fair. I hate filming. I turned down 'Strictly Come Dancing.' But television is a wonderful opportunity to promote scientific ideas. 'Super Doctors' is a very thoughtful piece.
Robert Winston

Hate, Down, Wonderful

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
Edward Sapir

Science, Getting, Realize

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
Ludwig von Mises

Peace, State, Influence

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