“ The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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“ From theme to theme with secret pleasure tossed,Amidst the soft variety I'm lost. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Soft yielding Minds to Water glide away,And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ”
- Edith Wharton- Copy
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“ On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last! ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
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“ Last year we were more of a running team. This year we're more versatile. ”
- Alan Bennett- Copy
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“ They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness. ”
- Jim Cole- Copy
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“ The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. ”
- William Manchester- Copy
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“ If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender. ”
- John Locke- Copy
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“ You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually. ”
- Cate Blanchett- Copy
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“ We had to get up at 6 a.m. and never had a problem. She was doing ballet and gymnastics, then dropped gymnastics. ”
- Angela Davis- Copy
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“ The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. ”
- Lewis Thomas- Copy
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“ If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic. ”
- Jimmy Cliff- Copy
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“ The basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe — as though our expectation itself causes our energy to flow out into the world and affect other energy systems. ”
- James Redfield- Copy
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“ There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from. ”
- Bernard Mandeville- Copy
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“ Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well and harmoniously developed body, tense muscles, an elastic and finely toned skin, bright eyes, grace and animation of carriage - all these things which are essential to beauty are the conditions of health. ”
- Havelock Ellis- Copy
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“ I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. ”
- Everett Dirksen- Copy
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“ Blessed are the Flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape. ”
- Sue Petrie Marsha- Copy
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“ If you are truly flexible and go until… there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime. ”
- Anthony Robbins- Copy
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“ It is safest to be moderately base — to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
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“ The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. ”
- Marguerite Gardiner- Copy
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“ The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
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“ You may be flexible on strategy, but must remain consistent on principle! ”
- Brubaker Movie- Copy
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“ There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. ”
- Saul Bellow- Copy
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“ Theoretican Talk Deciphered #1: 'It is a flexible framework' - > 'It does nothing useful on its own.'. ”
- Craig Bruce- Copy
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