Quotes with rigidity

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• The difference between management and administration (which is what the bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

  Robert Heller
  British management journalist, management consultant and author (1932 - 2012)
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• The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - ''indoctrination,'' we might say - exercised through the mass media.

  Noam Chomsky
  American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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• They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.

  Cosmos (1980)

  Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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• The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

  Andre Breton
  French writer (1896 - 1966)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• administration
• indoctrination
• pythagoreans)
• confrontation
• conflicting
• correcting

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