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I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
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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

— A Response To Questions and Objections of a Certain Jew (Ad quaestiones et objecta Judaei cuiusdam responsio)

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Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

ralph cudworth

— Ch. 5, sct. 3

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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

— As quoted in Caught Between the Dog and the Fireplug, or, How to Survive Public Service (2001) by Kenneth H. Ashworth, p. 11.

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Faith, like light, should ever be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.

Martin Luther

— P. 220. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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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

— Book I, On Production, Chapter XVII, Section IV, P. 196

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There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright.

theodore roosevelt

— In his Inaugural Address (1905)

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There is no good reason why we should fear the future , but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright.

theodore roosevelt

— In his Inaugural Address (1905)

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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

— John Calvin, A Response To Questions and Objections of a Certain Jew (Ad quaestiones et objecta Judaei cuiusdam responsio).

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