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Letter "F" » flexible
«The least flexible component of any system is the user.»
«The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.»
Author: P. L. Berger
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Past
| Keywords:
explains, flexible, interprets, malleable, recollection, recollections
«The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Life
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condor, Empire, flexible, stoop, virulent
«Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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Buildings, craving, creeds, flexible, imposed, lump, lust after, obstruction, obstructions, weariness
«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.»
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