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“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.”

Spirit Strong Nations Creativity Highest Optimism Essence Aim Accomplish Optimistic Prosperous Entrepreneurial Robust Entrepreneurial Spirit

Author:Bill Frist

“We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator. We must have a robust faith and yet not believe.”

Mind Believe Seems Science Faith Belief Opinion Intellectual Research Investigation Disposition Robust Paradoxical Investigators

Author:Claude Bernard

“Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.”

Helping Community Skills Resources Labor Organization Globalization Civil Society Robust Global Community Economic Globalization

Author:Kofi Annan

“For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.”

Love Matter Equal Capable Opposites Sentences Phrases Sentimental Robust Very Romantic

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.”

Ifs Science Courses Theory Accounts Claims Observation Elegant Contradictory Robust

Author:Halton Arp

“Our philosophy is we call it as we see it. Sometimes you agree, sometimes you don't. Robust debate is good.”

Believe Sometimes Philosophy Business Agree Debate Robust Belive

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and deciding the best course of action in the face of that future are much less likely to do so. And much of what we've seen so far suggests that a large group of diverse individuals will come up with better and more robust forecasts and make more intelligent decisions than even the most skilled "decision maker."”

“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.”

Should Wells May Sometimes Government Issues Wide Debate Officials Censorship Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Robust Public Officials Vehement Caustic

Author:William J. Brennan

“Since I was introduced to the practice of God's presence, which in turn led me into the contemplative way, I have nearly always felt so rich, so blessed, so sincerely full of "enough."...I believe it is on this robust, overflowing ...contemplative pathway that one gains the joy and serenity to be generous.”

Way Believe Enough Joy Turns I Believe Felt Practice Rich Gains Blessed Generosity Generous Serenity Sincerely Pathways Robust Contemplative God's Presence

Author:Brian D. McLaren

“Cost-effective, attractive to business partners, environmentally friendly, easy access to a wide range of guidance and support - it makes good business sense to implement and maintain a robust and effective environmental management system”

“Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are still moving downward and temporary services are firming up, that means the recovery continues, and we hope it will continue in a more robust fashion.”

Mean Stills Facts Moving Given Growth Economic Fashion News Lows Claims Including Recovery Temporary Jobless Inflation Robust Gdp

Author:Elaine Chao

“I could not be more determined and robust about this. I want more children to play cricket and to have the chance to compete. I want them playing on the correct pitches with hard balls and proper headgear.”

Want Children Hard Play Chance Balls Determined Cricket Robust

Author:Tessa Jowell

“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 is communication. Can’t we be friendly?”

People Ifs Men Hands Deals Communication Bottom Friendly Salt Robust Woman Worth

Author:Jeremy Irons

“It's a robust time, probably the most fertile time for the underground and for revolution since Nixon. I'm not talking about political overthrow; I'm talking about just general cultural revolution. Bush has polarised the country and is creating this breeding ground for an opposition. In the next couple of months, they'll probably make it unpatriotic to be Democrat. It's pretty crazy.”

Country Political Next Talking Crazy Revolution Months Couple Creating Democrat Opposition Breeding Not Talking Fertile Robust Unpatriotic

Author:Neil Young

“I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.”

Knows Has Beens Regret Alternatives Robust

Author:Juliet Stevenson

“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.”

People Looks Motivational Funny Courses House Half Dying Health Customers Stores Health Care Pale Terrific Skinny Steak Robust Health Food Skinny People Steak House

Author:Bill Cosby

“I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dreamed that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest; It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words.”

Men Looks Whole Dream Action Earth Hours Cities Quality Saws Greater He Man Invincible Robust

Author:Walt Whitman

“People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This has nothing to do with how most of us experience it, the heart coming around the corner and unexpectedly running into the mind. Of all the words that have stuck to the ribs of my soul, poetry has been the most filling.”

People Way Mind Heart Has Beens Soul Sometimes Running Knowing Wine Corners Stuck My Soul Delicate Filling Hateful Robust Knowledgeable Ribs Around The Corner

Book:Loud and Clear

Source: Loud and Clear

“Joy is spiritual and far grittier than happiness, and far more robust.”

Happiness Spiritual Joy Robust

Author:Laurel Mellin

“Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, then 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,' argues St. Augustine, 'I think, therefore God is.'”

Ifs Thinking Men Needs Reason Helping Path Destination Doubtful Scrutiny Robust God Exists Augustine Lack Of Faith

Author:Donna Woolfolk Cross

“Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government.”

Thinking Has Beens Government Economy Groups Majors Initiative Federal Government Supportive Packages Stimulus Robust Liquidity

Author:Judd Gregg

“The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance has faded away to an apologetic whisper. She who one time went out to declare now goes out to inquire. Her dogmatic declaration has become a respectful suggestion, a word of religious advice, given with the understanding that it is after all only an opinion and not meant to sound bigoted. Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its culture, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.”

“Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost.”

Shows Goal Space Cost Safe Lows Program Robust Space Program

Author:Burt Rutan

“True greatness, first of all, is a thing of the heart. It is alive with robust and generous sympathies. It is neither behind its age nor too far before it. It is up with its age, and ahead of it only just so far as to be able to lead its march. It cannot slumber, for activity is a necessity of its existence. It is no reservoir, but a fountain.”

Firsts Heart Age Able Behinds Existence Alive Greatness Activity Generous March Fountain Robust Slumber Reservoirs True Greatness

Author:Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

“I would be strongly committed to working with the FOMC to continue promoting a robust economic recovery ... I consider it imperative that we do what we can to promote a very strong recovery.”

Would Be Strong Economic Committed Recovery Very Strong Promoting Imperatives Robust Economic Recovery

Author:Janet Yellen

“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.'”

Ifs Years Nations Interest Security Military Strategy Financial Spending Defense Budgets Investors National Security Payment Borrowing Robust Niagara Military Budget

Author:Mitch Daniels

“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.”

Thinking Trying Would Be Life Is Winning Strong Difficult Deals Race Situation Risk Fashion Stress Practicals Formulas Very Strong Strain Robust Aptitude Formula 1

Author:Stirling Moss

“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.”

Reason Culture Natural Diversity Arrogance Robust Eccentricity

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!'”

People Ifs Wells Persons Doe Courses Asks Answers Busy Cheerful Robust

Author:Jo Ann Davis

“Given currency by Jrgen Habermas in the late l980s, 'constitutional patriotism' has emerged as an appealing principle for post-national political allegiance. Jan-Werner Mller traces the long postwar history of the concept, takes honest account of the conservative critiques it has provoked, but proposes that it can serve as a robust norm for European Union citizenship. This is a profound meditation with real importance for contemporary political society.”

“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.”

Moments Loss Trials Immense Vulgar Refined Refinement Robust Sustaining Vulgarity Reeds Expletives Vulgarity Is

Book:Her Brothers Her Journal

Source: Her Brothers Her Journal

“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.”

Men Wells May Passion Strong Influence Standing Machines Army Faculty Vigorous Robust Resolute Strong Passion

Book:The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft

Source: The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft

“Cot-death is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and experience as to how these unnecessary deaths can be avoided. In the meantime.. to prevent your offspring from becoming a SIDS statistic just make sure that its daily intake of ascorbate from conception on is sufficient. Under this regime the neonate is so robust and healthy that there has never been a case of SIDS among these ascorbate corrected infants, not even a case of respiratory distress during birth.”

“I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is not served when reporters prize trepidation and propriety over the robust journalistic duty to tell the whole story.”

Ifs I Can Whole Stories Answers Duty Fairs Objectives Telling The Truth Prize Reporters Robust Propriety Journalistic Trepidation

Author:Randy Shilts

“The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists.”

People Stills Inspiration Today Motivation Machines Engineers Identical Schooling Robust

Author:Sugata Mitra

“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.”

Hard Time Pay Standards Capacity Stress Stressed Robust Standards Of Living

Author:William Thorsell

“The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.”

Said Speech Court Entitled Insulting Robust Sidewalk

Author:Jay Sekulow

“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.”

Spirit Poor Poverty Grew Dust Drank Robust

Author:Emily Dickinson

“Improved energy productivity and renewable energy are both available in abundance—and new policies and technologies are rapidly making them more economically competitive with fossil fuels. In combination, these energy options represent the most robust alternative to the current energy system, capable of providing the diverse array of energy services that a modern economy requires. Given the urgency of the climate problem, that is indeed convenient.”

“Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.”

Long Artist Realizing Danger Mines Type Filled Sensitive Poison Gas Coal Robust Keel Canaries Poison Gas

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.”

Ifs Humor Strong Blood Balance Quiet Harmony Calm Robust Balance And Harmony

Author:Xunzi

“What distinguishes exemplary boards is that they are robust, effective social systems . . .The highest performing companies have extremely contentious boards that regard dissent as an obligation and that treat no subject as undiscussable.”

Social Company Subjects Highest Treats Regard Obligation Performing Boards Dissent Robust Social Systems Exemplary Contentious

Author:Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

“May God preserve me from being rich while they are indigent, from enjoying robust health if I do not try to cure their diseases, from eating good food, clothing myself well and resting in my home if I do not share with them a piece of my bread and give them, in the measure of my abilities, part of my clothes and if I do not welcome them into my home”

Ifs Giving Trying Wells May Home Enjoy Ability Rich Pieces Share Disease Eating Clothes Bread Welcome Cures Preserves Clothings Robust Good Food Being Rich Eating Good

Author:Gregory of Nazianzus

“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”

Thinking Trying Hands Spiritual Spirit Masters Holy Tools Transformation Holy Spirit Sculptors Robust Spiritual Transformation

Author:Jerry Bridges

“It is the responsibility of those of us involved in today's biomedical research enterprise to translate the remarkable scientiﬁc innovations we are witnessing into health gains for the nation. At no other time has the need for a robust, bidirectional information ﬂow between basic and translational scientists been so necessary.”

Needs Today Nations Responsibility Information Involved Research Gains Scientist Innovation Management Enterprise Remarkable Translate Robust Biomedical

Author:Elias Zerhouni

“Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.”

Soul Passion Actors Acting Tears Ears Fellows Splits Rags Robust

Author:William Shakespeare

“If we do nothing, we still get to a post-carbon future, but it will be bleak. However, if we plan the transition, we can have a world that supports robust communities of healthy, creative people and ecosystems with millions of other species.”

People Ifs World Stills Community Millions Support Creative Plans Healthy Species Posts Transition Carbon Creative People Ecosystems Bleak Robust

Author:Richard Heinberg

“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.”

World America Strong Force United Remains Extraordinary Partners Unstable Robust

Author:Barack Obama

“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.”

Doe Belief Theory Ego Satisfied Sincerity Egotism Egoism Robust

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“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.”

Ifs Needs Life Is Answers Terrible Late Species Too Late Bad Things Inaction Robust

Author:Kim Stanley

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