A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.
Jef Raskin
A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.
Robin Tunney
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Jack Benny
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
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
Benjamin Tucker
And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.
Robert Grosseteste
As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.
Stanley Schmidt
But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
Ivan Pavlov
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
William Robertson Smith
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
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
Edward Sapir
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.
George C. Williams
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
Rowan D. Williams
Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents.
Norman Granz
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
Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
Edward Norton
From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.
Roman Jakobson
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
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