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• The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.

  Peter Ustinov

  Great Things

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.

  Jean-Francois de La Harpe

  Teacher, Teaching, Students

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• The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.

  Ruth Benedict

  Brave, Degrees, Loyal

  Ruth Benedict (1967). “The chrysanthemum and the sword: patterns of Japanese culture”

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• English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.

  Robert McCrum

  Communication, Mean, Microsoft

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• I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Marine, World

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• I think I'm just more adaptable now, so danger, overall, seems less dangerous to me.

  Heather Donahue

  Thinking, Danger, Seems

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• I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

  Julie Delpy

  New York, Paris, Roots

  "French connected". Interview with Marianne Gray, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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• We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

  Daniel Wolpert

  Brain, Movement, Reason

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• Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.

  Sven Birkerts

  Dream, Reading, Book

  Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.168, Macmillan

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• Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing.

  Saul Alinsky

  Political, Tactics, Shifting

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.6, Vintage

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• I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in conference, are adaptable. They quickly get the other fellow's view. They are more eager to do this than to express their own ideas. Also, they state their own point of view convincingly.

  John Hallock, Jr.

  Communication, Men, Views

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• America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world.

  Edna Ferber

  Ocean, Moving, America

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• My sister was like my surrogate mother here, in Washington, with very much of the same persuasions as my mother. Even when friends came from home that I knew were more socially adaptable to the mores of the time, she would always caution me and say, "Be careful if you're going out with so and so because you know such and such a thing could happen." It was that kind of guardianship, and concern that imprinted me.

  David C. Driskell

  Mother, Home, Going Out

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Jody Houser, who writes Mother Panic, has this noir-ish superhero style. She's very adaptable.

  Gerard Way

  Mother, Writing, Superhero

  Source: collider.com

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• The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

  Ronald Fisher

  Programming, Adapted, Organisms

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• [Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it. This, I suppose, is why we are so wonderful and can make movies and electric razors and wireless sets - and guns with which to shoot the elephant, the hare, clay pigeons, and each other.

  Beryl Markham

  Gun, Winning, One Direction

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• Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.

  Margaret Mead

  Real, War, Fighting

  "Remarks about the Military Draft" by Margaret Mead (June 1968) as quoted in "Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views" edited by Rhoda Metraux (pp. 35-36), 1979.

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• Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are the most susceptible to being discouraged.

  Jim Elliot

  Eagles, Bird, Territory

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• We can never be certain about the future and therefore we must continue to be flexible and adaptable so that we can react quickly to the needs of our clients and our market place.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Change, Needs, Clients

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• It’s a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable.

  Olivier Martinez

  Culture, Matter, Way

  "The General". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2015.

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• I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.

  Julia Leigh

  Believe, Realizing

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• There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made sure to fill that gap.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Moving, School, Son

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• We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  People, World, Hardest

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• Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Thinking, Next Steps, Should

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• One of the best attributes of human beings is that they're adaptable; one of the worst attributes of human beings is they are adaptable. They adapt and start to tolerate abuses, they adapt to being involved themselves in abuses, they adapt to adversity and they continue on.

  Julian Assange

  Adversity, Abuse, Attributes

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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