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• Learning to be flexible in values takes a very long time...Of course I felt a little uncomfortable during questioning the concept of God, but then reading about the history and evolution of Gods. There were many different Gods: the God of war, the God of peace, the God of love, which was more like the people that invented them. They behaved, they got angry, they made sacrifices, they created floods when they didn't like the way things are going. This didn't come through as superior intelligence.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, Reading, Sacrifice

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• We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in. I think we accept a lot of those boxes, that labeling, and the way that we perceive the world, but what even is perception? It all seems pretty flexible to me.

  Brit Marling

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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

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• I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.

  Daniel Tammet

  Office, Feelings, Style

  "A genius explains". Interview with Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2005.

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• The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

  George Balanchine

  Girl, Strong, Elephants

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• If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.

  Joseph Pilates

  Pilates, Spine, Young

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• A man is as old as his spine is flexible!

  Joseph Pilates

  Men, Spine

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• Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Fall, Numbers, Work Out

  "Sheryl Sandberg Is Half Right" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2013.

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• We tell ourselves we're here to be flexible and to be nimble, and not necessarily to stick to a master plan.

  Ben Huh

  Nimble, Sticks, Masters

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• Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Team, Leader, Use

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• Physical education for the body to be effective must be rigorous and detailed, far sighted and methodological. This will be translated into habits. These habits should be controlled and disciplined, while remaining flexible enough to adapt themselves to circumstances and to the needs of growth and development of the being.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Growth, Body, Needs

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• Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

  David Shields

  Labels, Narrative, Nonfiction

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.124, Vintage

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• So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more principled and compromising Israelis; while c) empowering and financing some of the creepiest forces in American and Israeli society; and d) heaping ordure on our own secular founding documents. When will the Justice Department and the Congress and the Supreme Court become aware of this huge and rank offense, which is designed to bring us ever nearer to holy war?

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Mean, Justice

  "Your Tax Dollars at Work - in West Bank Settlements" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. July 12, 2010.

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• The bureaucratic culture that we [Afghanistan] have inherited is an obstacle. Hierarchies may be extremely efficient for dealing with certain events, but they are not quick in responding to global, flexible networks.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Events, Culture, May

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible. And it needs to be apolitical. To mix environmental concerns with the frantic fantasies that people have about one political party or another is to miss the cold truth - that there is very little difference between the parties, except a difference in pandering rhetoric.

  Michael Crichton

  Party, Differences, People

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.

  Diane Kruger

  Writing, Sometimes, Enough

  "Diane Kruger Talks THE BRIDGE, Playing a Cop with Asperger’s, Working with Co-Star Demian Bichir, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 10, 2013.

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• Life is like molten glass. It flows, it's flexible, it can be molded and shaped and...what do you say? Ah, yes. It holds vast potential. You have a number of uncertainties in your melt right now. But they will always be there in one form or another. Always. Unlike molten glass, life can't be fixed or frozen into a pretty vase and placed on a shelf to gather dust.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Glasses, Dust, Numbers

  Maria V. Snyder (2017). “The Glass Series Complete Collection: Storm Glass\Sea Glass\Spy Glass”, p.358, MIRA

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• There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you're afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible.

  Amanda Palmer

  Thinking, Rocks, Degrees

  "Breaking all the rules" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2009.

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• Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Average, Giving, Perfect

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.153, Macmillan

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• Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Perfection, Waiting, Glitches

  Jerry Spinelli, Eileen Spinelli (2014). “Today I Will”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach.

  Cary Sherman

  Resistance, Legislation, Approach

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• All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; toward justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of all its own people, and a world of immense and dizzying change.

  Robert Kennedy

  Strong, Men, Justice For All

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• I have great, great confidence in our capital markets and in our financial institutions. Our financial institutions, banks and investment banks, are strong. Our capital markets are resilient. They're efficient. They're flexible.

  Henry Paulson

  Strong, Financial, Investment

  "Commentary: White House caught napping on financial crisis" by Campbell Brown, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2008.

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• I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Black And White, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Religion itself cannot but be dynamic which is why "return" is an incorrect term. A return to the forms of religion which perhaps existed a couple of centuries ago is absolutely impossible. On the contrary, in order to combat modern materialistic mores, as religion must, to fight nihilism and egotism, religion must also develop, must be flexible in its forms, and it must have a correlation with the cultural forms of the epoch.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Fighting, Order, Nihilism

  Interview with Joseph Pearce, Sr., "St. Austin Review", Volume 2, No. 2, www.catholiceducation.org. February 2003.

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• I try to do yoga when I can to make sure that I'm flexible and that I'm not going to tear any muscle or pull anything.

  Jaimie Alexander

  Yoga, Tears, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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