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• We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Years, Body, Chill

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• I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Liberty, Veterans And Freedom

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

  John Barth

  Heart, Angel, Men

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• Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of St. Paul's. It was of a light pink colour veined with a delicate green, but the whole huge fabric so tenuous that it was but a fairy outline against the dark blue sky. It pulsated with a delicate and regular rhythm. From it there depended two long drooping, green tentacles, which swayed slowly backwards and forwards. This gorgeous vision passed gently with noiseless dignity over my head, as light and fragile as a soap-bubble, and drifted upon its stately way.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Summer, Ocean, Dark

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2000). “Tales of Unease”, p.95, Wordsworth Editions

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• Buddhas have a strength which is not of this world. Their strength is totally of love... Like a rose flower or a dewdrop. Their strength is very fragile, vulnerable. Their strength is the strength of life not of death. Their power is not of that which kills; their power is of that which creates. Their power is not of violence, aggression; their power is that of compassion.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Compassion, Rose

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• Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of a hand and the furry chin draped over the instep are calculated to let the shaky owner know that a friend is nearby.

  Mary McGrory

  Friendship, Dog, Animal

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• How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.

  Dean Koontz

  Life, Spring, Butterfly

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.103, Bantam

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• No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

  Seneca the Younger

  Meaningful, Wind, Roots

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• The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.

  Shirley Hufstedler

  Success, Keys, Rhythm Of Life

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• Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world.
  Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Two, Heaven

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• We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.

  Robert Kennedy

  Powerful, Understanding, Mind

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• As far as vocal preparation goes, it's really an interesting thing for such a fragile instrument and using it properly is like walking a tightrope. I have learned not to do extensive warm-ups. It's really more of a cerebral mind-body connection Zen hippy thing, just knowing your body and figuring out if I do that then I will be able to speak tomorrow.

  Davey Havok

  Knowing, Interesting, Preparation

  Southern Courier, "The Daily Telegraph" Newspaper, February 2010.

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• From the tiny birds of the air and from the fragile lilies of the field, we learn the same truth, which is so important for those who desire to live a life of simple faith: God takes care of His own. He knows our needs. He anticipates our crises. He is moved by our weaknesses. He stands ready to come to our rescue. And at just the right moment, He steps in and proves Himself as our faithful heavenly Father.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Father, Simple, Air

  Charles R. Swindoll (1999). “Grace Awakening/Hope Again/Simple Faith”, Nelsonword Publishing Group

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• I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mother, Humility, Years

  "The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2010.

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• Coppi? Is he the one we followed in the Giro del Piemonte? The guy who is as skinny as an asparagus? He doesn't lack courage, I'll give you that, but I think he's kind of fragile.

  Gino Bartali

  Thinking, Giving, Guy

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• Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

  Ronald Reagan

  Flower, Government, Democracy

  Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London

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• There is nothing more fragile than civilization.

  Havelock Ellis

  Civilization

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• Self-esteem and identity are very fragile things. I think a lot of times, those are the motivations for why people do take their own lives - not being seen, not being recognized, not being loved, not feeling supported, not feeling understood.

  Nate Parker

  Motivation, Self Esteem, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Can anything compare to the sight of the first yellow violets blooming along a woodland path? These most fragile of plants are yet hardy enough to bloom when nights are still frosty and snow still lingers in the ravines.

  Howard Evans

  Night, Sight, Yellow

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• Have fun. I don't kid myself. Life is very fragile, and success doesn't change that. If anything, success makes it more fragile. Anything can change, without warning, and that's why I try not to take any of what's happened too seriously.

  Donald Trump

  Fun, Kids, Trying

  Donald Trump (2016). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.48, Random House

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• Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Talking, Cracks

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.111, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Pride, Men

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Old Goriot: Classic French Literature”, p.74, 谷月社

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• I am opposing it with an idea of the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers, that is, a history of mortal, fragile and limited creatures like you and I. I am against the idea of clean, clearly distinct epochs in the history of philosophy or indeed in anything else. I think that history is always messy, contingent, plural and material. I am against the constant revenge of idealism in how we think about history.

  Simon Critchley

  Revenge, Philosophy, Thinking

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• I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.

  Stephen King

  Fossils, Succeed, Unbroken

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, news.stlpublicradio.org. June 14, 2013.

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• When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

  Jenna Morasca

  Delicate Life, Backgrounds, Fades

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