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Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.

Carl Sagan

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

Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Samuel Johnson

You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

Harold Macmillan

I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labor, and at the expiration of that time I should feel fresh and vigorous enough to go right on in the same way for numerous more months.

Artemus Ward (writer)

One of the hallmarks of our approach is the vigorous feedback between our computer models and our laboratory work. The computer simulations help us perform better experiments, and the laboratory tests help us design better simulation, and the overall combination saves time and money.

Andreas Lüttge

Vigorous writing is concise.

William Strunk Jr.

We're dealing here with different cultures, and although we must continue to express our concerns in a very vigorous and a very forthright manner, we must understand that human rights is one of a whole constellation of issues in which our government engages the Chinese government and the Chinese people.

Jim Sasser

It is both my medical and personal opinion that you are in excellent health. You live a vigorous and active life, you walk two miles a day, you take good care of yourself, and you have kept your weight down.

Paul Phillips

Information may become available in the days before an election that demands vigorous reporting. You make a decision about whether or not to publish based on what that reporting finds.

Kathleen Carroll

With the help of technologies and modern media, the ancient temple will face a more vigorous development era.

Shi Yongxin

We always look forward to a vigorous campaign. We take any opponent seriously. This campaign will be no different.

Joe Hunter

In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party.

Matt Blunt

Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.

Lord Newborough

The Justice Department has a strong track record of success in prosecuting terrorists and those who support terrorist activities. We remain focused on the important task at hand, which is to protect our country through our ongoing vigorous prosecution of terrorism cases.

Tasia Scolinos

There will be a vigorous debate on this. Nothing is settled.

Don Stewart

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in al.

John Owen

I believe and support the more vigorous standards, I think it's a good idea to challenge students to achieve more and place higher expectations on them so they get the best education possible.

Dawn Allstetter

It will be a less vigorous bush. The damage will set the plants back two or three weeks. We won't know the percentage of loss for awhile.

Gary Reeder

That one (cell) was particularly vigorous and long-lasting.

Bob Wagner

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some agencies do a more vigorous job than others of reporting it, but that's really up to local policy.

Jon Peck

We are very confident about the long-term outlook for our business, but believe that the immediate impact will be a further weakening in the operating environment and a delay in the economic recovery, ... However, given increased fiscal and monetary stimulus, we anticipate that long-term economic recovery should be more certain and vigorous than previously expected.

Henry Paulson

Our goal was to put together a show that would raise the profile of the vigorous quality of this work. And to try and change the perception about disability and its connection with art and artists while also making this work part of the larger arts conversation.

Riva Lehrer

We think we're going to do well - he's obviously run a strong, vigorous campaign.

Christy Setzer

Only half the people in the United States vote, but it is still a vigorous democracy.

Jorge Buendia

We cannot sit out the debates on the big issues of our times. Our interests demand a vigorous and articulate diplomatic effort that explains our position and advances our interests.

Shyam Saran

NYU is a safe environment in one of the safest neighborhoods in the safest large city in the country. The university has been taking a more vigorous approach toward alcohol and substance abuse.

John Beckman

The real tragedy of today's decision … is that it significantly diminishes the breathing space … that is imperative for a vigorous and competent press.

William Cooper

Despite the dot-com meltdown, we found that the Internet is more vigorous than ever. Yet many issues of concern about the Internet remain from 2000, and new concerns have emerged in 2001.

Jeff Cole

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

A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.

Jean de La Fontaine

The January survey results imply that trade conditions may not be as vigorous as they were in 2004 and 2005, but expectations are still quite high. Fewer new orders and a slow down in supplier delivery negatively affected trade conditions in January.

Richard Downing

We spent $250,000 on an armored bus and hundreds of thousands on security guards, bulletproof vests, night goggles, and safe day camps for children. We're very proud of what we've accomplished, and we maintain a very vigorous paper trail and accounting methods to track where every dollar is spent.

Joel Fox

The bulk of the moose population at any point is invulnerable to wolves, because they're young and vigorous enough to fight off the wolves.

Rolf Peterson

The market's gains really are a response to the good fundamentals we've seen, like the jobless claims. It's really helping tech because that is one of the most cyclical parts of the economy. There is also hope that capital spending will be vigorous even if the consumer takes a break.

Michael Metz

Having personally witnessed and fought vigorous efforts by the other side to disenfranchise voters, I'm encouraged by the desire to build long-term infrastructure to protect voting rights.

James Katz

For years, the database has been an extremely vigorous competition between DB2 and Oracle database. The heat has gotten more intense because middleware has been added to the mix.

Joshua Greenbaum

We're very open to talking to all the companies interested in using our interface. We're going to be very vigorous in bringing our technology to market, and very vigilant in protecting our patent rights.

Craig Mchugh

It is commonplace for private counsel to retain commercial investigative services to perform legal and appropriate tasks to assist in the defense of a client. Public officials deserve, and from these two law firms will receive, a no less vigorous defense than private citizens under similar circumstances.

Robert F. Bennett

With his record- that we now know all about - we will be vigorous in our attempt to get active jail time for Mr. Wilson. In the end, though, it will be up to the judge to decide.

Tom Keith

We've had tremendous focus during our workouts. Bennie has done a good job of getting us there. The workouts have been vigorous, twice a day, everyday. If we're not ready now, we won't be ready.

Dwayne Slay

As seen most recently from war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, from tsunami-ravaged South Asia and from Hurricane Katrina's landfall along the Gulf, ... CNN has shown that it is capable of balancing vigorous reporting with respect for private concerns.

Jim Walton

Whether top-down or bottoms-up, the facts today point but in one direction: that of sustained, significantly above-trend growth at least through the end of 2000, with virtual certainty of vigorous growth through 2001 and even the likelihood for continued expansion though 2002 as well.

Rick Whittington

It can be seen as a positive sign that vigorous corporate restructuring is underway. But the negative impact would be larger as it would dampen individual consumption.

Kunihiro Hatae

This is a new choice for consumers that will result in more vigorous competition.

Jonathan Davies

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

Claudia Lady Bird Johnson

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. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

William Strunk Jr.

We are vigorous defenders of our users' privacy. We did not provide any personal information in response to the Justice Department's subpoena. In our opinion this is not a privacy issue.

Mary Osako

Energetic and vigorous about rooting out all those bishops who have kept priests in positions of ministry where they can harm children again.

Paul Steidler

We're pretty good about being responsible in how we present these cases. We have really vigorous discussions.

Tom Touchet

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

To overawe, or intimidate, or, when we cannot persuade with reason, to resist with fortitude, are the occupations which give its most animating exercise, and its greatest triumphs, to a vigorous mind; and he who has never struggled with his fellow-creatures, is a stranger to half the sentiments of mankind.

Adam Ferguson

I love the democratic process and look forward to a vigorous debate.

Bill Brooks

Where we believe our intellectual property is strong and has been challenged and is likely to be infringed, we'll be as vigorous as anyone in protecting our rights. We're not looking at anything that's imminent though.

Jon Symonds

Our office will conduct a vigorous investigation and an aggressive defense on behalf of Mr. Wesson.

Peter Jones

The license is the culmination of 8 1/2 years of a very vigorous licensing process during which the state of Utah has been a full participant. We had to win every single argument to show this facility could be safely operated, and we won all those arguments.

Sue Martin

All Alabamians benefited from the vigorous political reporting in which the Post-Herald specialized for many years.

Howell Raines

We have a vigorous suicide prevention program. Everyone at least once is trained to recognize the warning signs and council people who are troubled. We work and have for many years on that.

Martha Rudd

I think it's a major step forward, I don't think it signals any retreat from vigorous enforcement.

David Becker

I must admit just her presence here this morning gave my pacemaker a vigorous jump-start.

Johnny Grant

We'd like to see Vietnam's WTO accession finalized by the end of the year, preferably by the end of November. That's a pretty vigorous timetable.

Matthew Daley

For the full fiscal year 1999, we are targeting earnings growth with more promising prospects evident by the year's second half. Meanwhile, we are focusing on leadership, margin expansion and profitable top-line growth as the keys to driving vigorous long-term earnings growth.

Bruce Rohde

Since then, we have vastly strengthened our overall domestic and international route network and have entered into alliances with a number of carriers, all of which will make us a much more vigorous competitor in the west.

Don Carty

It doesn't help that he's Jordanian. I think he's caught up in the Justice Department's vigorous work.

Steve Hartman

Lincoln may be a revered icon, but he's also an historical figure about whom passions often run high. Certainly, we would like to make a vigorous and healthy debate about Lincoln and his legacy an important part of our bicentennial activities.

Michael Bishop

I look forward to the months ahead as a vigorous contest of issues and ideas.

Geraldine A. Ferraro

Molly was hard-driving and vigorous.

Jeanne Clark

We expect vigorous growth for the first quarter of the year. If we continue having this type of industrial production data we will surely have to revise growth (estimates) upwards.

Guillermo Ortiz

We plan to be very vigorous in the defense of our intellectual property.

Craig Mchugh

The Bush-Cheney campaign looks for a vigorous debate at the appropriate time. But John Kerry should finish the debate with himself first -- being on both sides of each issue.

Taylor Griffin

In comparison to a prior study that we did among male physicians, the risk of sudden cardiac death during vigorous exertion was approximately 19 times higher in men than in women. On the other hand, women who exercised four or more hours per week reduced their risk of sudden cardiac death during exercise by about sixty percent.

Christine Albert

Yes they are going to face vigorous antitrust litigation and I expect it to go on for a number of years but it won't really hurt the company financially.

Esther Schreiber

The vast majority of the differences between the two companies have been settled and we look forward to remaining vigorous competitors in the marketplace, and not in the courtroom.

Eric Kraus

This administration has continued the robust and vigorous enforcement of civil rights laws, ... These accomplishments could not have been achieved without teamwork between career attorneys and political appointees.

Eric Holland

We have undertaken the most vigorous enforcement of the language minority provisions of the Voting Rights Act in its history.

Eric Holland

I don't anticipate problems. I anticipate a vigorous process.

Reed Gillespie