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Letter "F" » flexibility
«The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible. The religion of Buddha has the capacity to change according to times, a quality which no other religion can claim to have...Now what is the basis of Buddhism? If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
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Buddha, Buddhism, carefully, element, flexibility, infallible, inherent, proclaim, teachings, the Buddha
«Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.»
Author: Bernard Law Montgomery
(Military)
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air power, asset, flexibility, indivisible, split
«Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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World
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flexibility, manners, oil, suppleness
«There are two types of minds - the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the dive»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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applies, arrives, dive, endowed, flexibility, intuitive, rigid, simultaneously
«The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate /a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes /he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
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agreeable, Bright Eyes, destitute, destitute of, dozen, flexibility, precarious, reposes, stamped, stroke, two dozen, wealthy, wealthy man
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