#flexibility

When the Chief Justice read me the oath,' he [FDR] later told an adviser, 'and came to the words "support the Constitution of the United States" I felt like saying: "Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy--not the kind of Constitution your Court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy. ↗

— Susan Quinn

#democracy #flexibility #roosevelt #supreme-court #art

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans. ↗

— Daniel J. Levitin

#connection #flexibility #music #people #communication

That which yields is not always weak. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#flexibility #weakness

It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#flexibility #had #industry #interesting #ipad