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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.
Emily Dickinson— c.1883 Complete Poems, no.1587 (first published1890).
Honoria?is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of awelter-weight and a laugh likea squadronof cavalry charging over a tin bridge.
Plum— 1925 Carry On, Jeeves,'The RummyAffair of Old Biffy'.
Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.
henry ward beecher— p. 106. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough.
anthony stafford beer— p. 88 (Chapter 3, Quantified Insight)
No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.
alexander cockburn— "Obama's Speech; McCain's Palinomy," CounterPunch (August 30/31, 2008)
We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific concept we can describe it in precise mathematical terms, and as a commodity we can measure, market, regulate and tax it.
hans christian von baeyer— Chapter 2, The Spell of Democritus, Why information will transform physics, p. 11
In my individual heart I fully believe my faith is as robust as yours. The trouble with your robust and full bodied faiths, however, is, that they begin to cut each others throats too soon, and for getting on in the world and establishing a modus vivendi these pestilential refinements and reasonablenesses and moderations have to creep in.
william james— Letter to John Jay Chapman, April 5, 1897.
"Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation."
daniel suarez— Chapter 31: Red Queen Hypothesis, Character: Sobol
Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, elegant, robust and heroic life.
nassim nicholas taleb— p. 29 (The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010))
For the robust, an error is information.
nassim nicholas taleb— p. 72 (The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010))
I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity’s phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism
nassim nicholas taleb— pp. 107-108 (The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010))
The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
nassim nicholas taleb— p. 20 (Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012))
While there are many different wiki content-management systems available for free or fee, MediaWiki is one of the most robust and and well-maintained systems available to wiki publishers.
— Rob Garner (2012). Search and Social: The Definitive Guide to Real-Time Content Marketing. Wiley Publishing. p. 223. ISBN 1118287215.
If China wants to take economic development to its next stage’, Song argues, ‘it will have to nurture the market-based economy and establish a more robust and adaptable regulatory framework, providing fair access for both SOEs and private companies to capital and technology and creating a social culture that builds entrepreneurial capabilities and extends respect to the contribution that entrepreneurship makes.
— Ligang Song identifies over-reliance on state intervention and the stranglehold of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as the Chinese economy’s Achilles heel, quoted on East Asia Forum, "Can China keep growing?", January 28, 2013.
System engineering is a robust approach to the design , creation, and operation of systems. In simple terms, the approach consists of identification and quantification of system goals, creation of alternative system design concepts, performance of design trades, selection and implementation of the best design, verification that the design is properly built and integrated, and post-implementation assessment of how well the system meets (or met) the goals.
— NASA (1995) NASA Systems Engineering Handbook
[D]ebate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.
— William J. Brennan, Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 1964).
I owe my complete restoration to a discovery I made while being treated at that particular very expensive sanatorium . I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists: cunningly leading them on;...
— Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita Penguin UK, 27 July 2012, p. 103
Critical systems thinking is a robust recent trend in humanistically oriented systems work. Spearheaded by work of Ulrich (1983), Flood (1990), and Flood and Jackson (1991), this approach manages to accommodate the knowledge-constitutive interests of Jürgen Habermas (1971) and the interpretive analytical orientations of Michel Foucault (1972) through a meta- methodology involving constant critical reflection. The meta-methodology serves as the basis for the generation of a new methodology that critically applies various systems approaches to problem solving.
— Alexander Laszlo and Stanley Krippner (1992) "Systems Theories: Their Origins, Foundations, and Development"
...the robust health of the Carnatic music fraternity made the “golden age” of Carnatic music possible...became possible because of interaction in the music community , the “core” musical knowledge that the composers could take for granted and the intense awareness of the tremendous musical activity by the composers.
— K. G. Vijayakrishnan (2007), in “The Grammar of Carnatic Music”, p.5
Healthy patriotism is associated with robust particularism – petty provincialism, if you like – and certainly not with the deracinated globalism exhibited by our GI Joes and Janes.
— “The International Highway to Hell,” Antiwar.com, March 9, 2005
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. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!
— Emily Dickinson, A Book.
We consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.
— Writing for the court, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)
Haskell is faster than C++, more concise than Perl , more regular than Python , more flexible than Ruby , more typeful than C#, more robust than Java , and has absolutely nothing in common with PHP.
— Audrey Tang (2005) "Perl Internationalization and Haskell: An Interview with Autrijus Tang." perl.com. By Edd Dumbill, September 8, 2005
Haskell is faster than C++, more concise than Perl, more regular than Python , more flexible than Ruby , more typeful than C#, more robust than Java , and has absolutely nothing in common with PHP.
— Audrey Tang Perl Internationalization and Haskell: An Interview with Autrijus Tang
[There exists a] profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.
— William J. Brennan, Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 1964).
Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal, and reexamination.
— William O. Douglas, (Branzburg v. Hayes, 1972).
If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
— Xun Zi, in Xun Zi p.31 (Z)
All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.
— Walt Whitman, in Song of Myself (1855; 1881), § (44)
Critical systems thinking is a robust recent trend in humanistically oriented systems work. Spearheaded by work of Ulrich (1983), Flood (1990), and Flood and Jackson (1991), this approach manages to accommodate the knowledge-constitutive interests of Jürgen Habermas (1971) and the interpretive analytical orientations of Michel Foucault (1972) through a meta- methodology involving constant critical reflection. The meta-methodology serves as the basis for the generation of a new methodology that critically applies various systems approaches to problem solving.
— Alexander Laszlo and Stanley Krippner (1992) "Systems Theories: Their Origins, Foundations, and Development"
