The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Albert Einstein

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When the Chief Justice read me the oath,' he [FDR] later told an adviser, 'and came to the words "support the Constitution of the United States" I felt like saying: "Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy--not the kind of Constitution your Court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy.

Susan Quinn

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That which yields is not always weak.

Jacqueline Carey

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The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

Jodi Picoult

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Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

Daniel J. Levitin

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I want to caution you against the idea that balance has to be a routine that looks the same week in and week out.

Kevin Thoman

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Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of self-preservation will allow a certain margin of freedom for the expression of this youthful mood. But the plain, unpalatable fact is that in America today that margin of freedom has been reduced to the vanishing point. Rebellious youth is not wanted here. In our environment there is nothing to challenge our young men; there is no flexibility, no colour, no possibility for adventure, no chance to shape events more generously than is permitted under the rules of highly organised looting. All our institutional life combines for the common purpose of blackjacking our youth into the acceptance of the status quo; and not acceptance of it merely, but rather its glorification.

Harold Edmund Stearns

Tags: acceptance freedom adventure youth civilization america status-quo idealism possibility rebellion experimentation institutionalized emigration flexibility revolt lost-generation desertion looting



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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

Vernor Vinge

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What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.

Hiroko Sakai

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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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