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  • I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. -- Everett Dirksen
  • If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. -- H. P. Lovecraft
  • I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one. -- Marianne Williamson
  • Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. -- Douglas MacArthur
  • A tree that is unbending, is easily broken. -- Laozi
  • Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind. -- Francis Bacon
  • Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal. -- Randall Robinson
  • Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken. -- Laozi
  • Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world. -- Ralph Cudworth
  • Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life. -- Laozi
  • In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • As you watch the Gary Condit interview, three words come to mind: stiff, unbending and impenetrable. And that's just his hair. -- David Letterman
  • Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
  • The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case? -- Zhuangzi
  • Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren. -- Martin Luther
  • You must achieve the confidence of knowing that you possess absolute, unbending, unimpeachable integrity. Everyone must know that. Above all else, it is integrity that defines your character. -- Dave Calhoun
  • An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea. -- Derek R. Audette
  • Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone. -- John Calvin
  • He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered. -- Boethius
  • Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional? -- Prince Charles
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