If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.
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Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
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Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
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Habakkuk 2:4:
'See, he is puffed up; his desires are not upright – but the righteous will live by their faithfulness – '
(NIV)
Look at the proud; his soul is not straight or right within him, but the [rigidly] just and the [uncompromisingly] righteous man shall live by his faith and in his faithfulness. [Rom. 1:17; Gal. 3:11.](AMP)
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
(KJV)
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Rigidly organized pre-school classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self-image of marginality and failure.
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