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• And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents do not have any moments of human weakness!

  Henri Weenink

  Opponents, Chess, Weakness

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• The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by the rigidity of traditional scholarship, is as exciting and surprising as a bestselling murder mystery; I simply couldn't put it down. Through scholarly brilliance and passion, Adrienne Mayor has opened the door to a forgotten world of gender equality, and her book ought to be required reading in every college history course.

  Anne Fortier

  Book, Reading, Passion

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• Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Eight, Views, Years

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

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• Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

  Agnes Repplier

  Teacher, Too Much, Taught

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• [On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven astronauts:] The public saw with their own eyes how science is done, how a great scientist thinks with his hands, how nature gives a clear answer when a scientist asks her a clear question.

  Freeman Dyson

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

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• And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical necessity and telling us, neither of harmony of design, usefulness or moral significance, nothing but spherical trigonometry and Napier's analogies. It is because we have blindly excluded the lessons of these angular bodies from the domain of human knowledge that we are still in doubt about the great doctrine that the only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Law, Design, Doubt

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.383, CUP Archive

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• Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.

  Danny Baker

  Soccer, Football, Fashion

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• Very, very slowly, the dwarf remnants of what was once our mighty sun will cool and dim, until it embarks on its final metamorphosis, gradually solidifying into a crystal of extraordinary rigidity. Eventually it will fade out completely, merging quietly into the blackness of space.

  Paul Davies

  Dwarves, Space, Finals

  Paul Davies (2008). “The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe”, p.48, Basic Books

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• The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this capacity, which nonviolence must recover.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Humility, Mind

  Thomas Merton (1976). “Thomas Merton: On Peace”, Andrew Mowbray Incorporated, Publishers

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• When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.

  Confucius

  Transformation, Process, Universal

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• As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent to do some repetitive job, but not intelligent enough to make their own terms with society." Those "intelligent enough" to make their own terms with society are what we will later refer to as artists of life. The outsider views himself as a product of a culture he rejects-the artist views himself as a culture-builder.

  Laurence Boldt

  Jobs, Artist, Intelligent

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.94, Penguin

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• You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what do they want, what's the shape of the thing.

  Paul Greengrass

  Character, Giving, Trying

  "Director Paul Greengrass Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 11, 2010.

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• The economic union - creating a big common market, like the United States, so that you can compete across borders. There are common rules, regulations, and simplification, and that is still a good reason, too. When they put their monetary union together, that created a rigidity that made it hard for currency fluctuations. They don't really have a solution to that.

  Jamie Dimon

  Creating, Together, United States

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

  Michael Crichton

  Ideas, World, Modern

  Michael Crichton's Remarks to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• I wanted to be supportive of parents rather than to scold them. The book set out very deliberately to counteract some of the rigidities of pediatric tradition, particularly in infant feeding. It emphasized the importance of great differences between individual babies, of the need for flexibility and of the lack of necessity to worry constantly about spoiling.

  Benjamin Spock

  Baby, Book, Differences

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• Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.

  Jay Baruchel

  Night, Thinking, Next Day

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 10, 2010.

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• [University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.

  Muriel Beadle

  Heart, University Students, Self

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• All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.

  Robert Benchley

  Laughter, Relieved, Involuntary

  Robert Benchley (1947). “Benchley--or else!”

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• You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.

  John Cleese

  Self, Ego, Inappropriate

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2009.

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• I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.

  Andrea Hirata

  World, Mathematics, Bohemian

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• I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

  Imogen Heap

  Guitar, Piano, Sound

  Chicago Pride Interview, chicago.gopride.com. February 20, 2006.

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• The problem is, to have prices fall would work fine if we didn't have all these built in rigidities on downward prices, because then things don't adjust, and that's how we have recessions and depressions, is prices and costs don't adjust together and they get out of whack, and we end up with dislocations.

  Charles Koch

  Fall, Together, Cost

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

  Alan Bleasdale

  Love, Heart, Exercise

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• Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.

  Hermann Weyl

  Math, Thinking, Essence

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