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Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
James Beattie /
Arms
Invincible
Inflexible
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Abraham Lincoln / 16Th U.s. President
Motivational
Brainy
Honesty
Important
May
Principles
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Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
Oscar Niemeyer / Architect
Men
Angle
Lines
Angles
Attract
Inflexible
Straight
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The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
Marguerite Gardiner /
Conscience
Flexible
Politeness
Chief
Escort
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It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
John Paul Jones / Sailor
Nature
Chance
Inexorable
Law
Risk
Seems
Winning
Will
Who
Those
Cannot
Win
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As you grow older, you become - everybody becomes - less inflexible and a little more accommodating.
Ratan Tata / Businessman
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
George Bernard Shaw / Playwright
Truth
Energy
Ethical
Honesty
Honor
Truth Is
Hardly
Inflexible
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Public school teachers enjoy a huge amount of job security, thanks to their powerful unions and inflexible work rules.
Mike Gallagher / Radio Host
Amount
Enjoy
Huge
Powerful
Public School
School Teachers
Security
Thanks
Unions
Job
Rules
Teachers
Public
Huge Amount
Inflexible
Job Security
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There should be reluctance to make a national policy so inflexible that it fails to take into account the country's diversity.
Blase J. Cupich /
Reluctance
Account
Fails
Inflexible
National Policy
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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.
Ken Robinson / Author
Communication
Littles
Organization
Organizations
Functions
Inflexible
Segregated
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The biggest challenge is adding the bureaucracy it takes to run the company without becoming fat, lazy, inflexible - bureaucratic.
Ted Waitt /
Bureaucracy
Lazy
Adding
Biggest Challenge
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If you are inflexible in the body, look at what you are holding onto unnecessarily in your life. Release tension, and life will open up.
Tara Stiles / Model
Release
Tension
Holding
Inflexible
Onto
Unnecessarily
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You adhere to a philosophy, but part of the philosophy I have is that I don't want to be too doggone inflexible that I miss a good player.
Marv Levy / Football Coach
Adhere
Inflexible
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I think justices of all stripes agree that stare decisis is important, but not an inextricable command. It's not inflexible; it's not absolute.
Brett Kavanaugh /
Stripes
Absolute
Inflexible
Justices
Stare
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Historians spend their days engaged in the literally endless task of reshaping and expanding our view of the past, while statues are fixed and inflexible.
David Olusoga /
Engaged
Expanding
Fixed
Statues
Historians
Inflexible
Literally
Task
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German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.
Suzanne Fields /
Bureaucracy
Cost
Entrepreneurship
Overwhelmed
Rules
German
Discourage
Enforced
Inflexible
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Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
Angela Carter / Novelist
Ambition
Appearance
Cover
Enterprises
Incurable
Inflexible
Passions
Principle
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I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.
Juan Williams / Journalist
Npr
Orthodoxy
Representing
Right Wing
Inflexible
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This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish.
Laurent Fabius / Former Prime Minister Of France
Europe
Perfect
Revision
Wish
Towards
Inflexible
Least
Step
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To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.
Chris Evert / Tennis Player
Arrogant
Champion
Self Absorbed
Selfish
Stubborn
Tennis
Tunnel Vision
Tunnels
Vision
Almost
Inflexible
Tunnel
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Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.
Lysander Spooner / Philosopher
Application
Definitions
Law
Permanent
Term
Universal
According
Correct
Definition
Existing
Inflexible
No Law
Rule
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We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law.
Jose Serrano / United States Representative
Common Sense
Deserve
Immigration
Immigration Laws
Parent
Inflexible
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The family I grew up in was very inflexible and harsh. It left me with the feeling that if you do let somebody down badly, then even if they tell you it's all right, it cannot be all right.
Michel Faber / Writer
Harsh
Badly
Inflexible
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
Iris Murdoch / Author
Marriage
Giving
Selfish
Unselfish
Almost
Becomes
Demands
Set
Inflexible
Making
Partner
Pattern
Soon
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We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
Andrew Jackson / 7Th U.s. President
Government
Determination
Economy
Income
New Era
Real
Beginning
Beyond
Inflexible
Necessities
Rigid
Strongly
Urge
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I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone's feelings, hypersensitive to other people's needs - and it's just paralysing.
James Murphy /
Combination
Determined
Guilty
Toxic
Controlling
Hurting
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I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know.
Huston Smith / Professor
Believe
Conflict
Policy
Political
Sharon
Support
Actions
Assumed
Believes
Bush
Elected
Final
Hasten
Inflexible
Reasons
Seemingly
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Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
Maximilien Robespierre / Lawyer
Consequence
Country
Democracy
Evil
Justice
Natural
Severe
Terror
Virtue
Most
Then
Applied
Only
General
Less
Distinct
Inflexible
Pressing
Prompt
Wants
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The Soviet system is how everything here works. It's very difficult to break the system. The system is big and inflexible, uneffective, and also corrupt. And that is our main goal: to change the system, to break the system, to make it modern.
Vitali Klitschko / Mayor Of Kiev
Soviet
Corrupt
Inflexible
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I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence!
Deborah Sampson / Military Woman
Independence
Drama
Might
Our Lives
Resolution
Scene
Acknowledged
Actor
Became
Inflexible
Last
Lose
Nobly
Permitted
Possess
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I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.
Julian Baggini / Author
Broken
Contradiction
Embrace
Ethics
Glasses
Importance
Prohibition
Torture
Absolute
Acknowledging
Glass
Inflexible
Maintain
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