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• Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

  David Suzuki

  Environmental, Dollars, Protection

  David Suzuki, Ian Hanington (2017). “Just Cool It!: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do - A Post-Paris Agreement Game Plan”, p.67, Greystone Books Ltd

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• Whatever new threats and challenges may emerge, our nation will be able to face them squarely, deal with them, and yet allow our people to continue to live free and unafraid. The decisions you make, the courage and creativity you bring to your responsibilities, will determine America's future. Liberty and our way of life are fragile gifts - their care is in your hands. We thank you for stepping forward to shoulder that immense responsibility. Your country is grateful, and proud of each of you.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Education, Country, Grateful

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• I always sort of create practical problems so that I don't have to see a film I've just done. I'm too vulnerable, too fragile. People see your work, and there's nothing you can do. You're completely exposed.

  Lena Olin

  People, Done, Problem

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• if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have
  one. It will not be a pansy heaven or
  a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but
  it will be a heaven of blackred roses
  my father will be(deep like a rose
  tall like a rose)
  standing near my
  swaying over her
  (silent)
  with eyes which are really petals and see
  nothing with the face of a poet really which
  is a flower and not a face with
  hands
  which whisper
  This is my beloved my
  (suddenly in sunlight
  he will bow,
  and the whole garden will bow)

  e. e. cummings

  Mother, Father, Flower

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.28, C.H.Beck

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• We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Children, Self, Delicate Life

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• Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Bird, Savages

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

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• Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

  John Updike

  Food, Tomatoes, Plant

  John Updike (2012). “The Witches of Eastwick: A Novel”, p.7, Random House

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• Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

  Alan Rudolph

  Identity, Moments, Fragile Things

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.

  Timothy Keller

  Hurt, Real, Believe

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• Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

  Ai Weiwei

  Powerful, Recovery, Mean

  "Ai Weiwei 'Does Not Feel Powerful". BBC, October 13, 2011.

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• I think that it’s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by the state over the means of violence is still so inadequate that I think state building remains a major challenge. And until the militias can be reined in and the authority of the democratically-elected state can really be firmly established, there’s still tremendous fragility and vulnerability in the unfolding story in Libya.

  Larry Diamond

  Mean, Thinking, Order

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• In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.

  Charles James

  Fashion, Cement, Built

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• My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost other-worldly haunting presence. For me, they were simply my own reality at that point in my life. What I was trying to reveal was my inner soul in all its fragile complexity. Without knowing it, I was trying to peel back the layers that shroud and bind us all as we struggle to reveal our own authentic selves.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Struggle, Reality

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• Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.

  Chris Martin

  Decision, Life Is, Made

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• I think having kids just makes you want to do things to help people. You have children and you see how fragile and innocent and helpless they are when they first start out. If they are going to be a victim of whatever they are surrounded by, I just do everything I can to try to make whatever change I can.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Lisa Marie Presley: ‘Don’t Cry, Daddy’". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2013.

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• It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

  Jennifer Garner

  Inspirational, Strong, Way

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• She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs. The sight of his thin, boyish body - all ribs and elbows and knees - pulled at her heart, for he looked so innocent and vulnerable. He was so small and fragile that she wondered how she could ever protect him, and renewed fear rose in her.

  Dean Koontz

  Fear, Heart, Hair

  Dean Koontz (2003). “Lightning”, p.230, Penguin

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• ...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes that were the loneliest Harry had ever heard.

  Jo Nesbo

  Piano, Sound, Sitting

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• Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of men who are apparently "insiders" know how vulnerable the system is because they know how ambiguous their own attachments to it are. The slightest challenge exposes the fragile foundations of legitimacy of the state.

  John Schaar

  Men, Roots, America

  John H. Schaar (1981). “Legitimacy in the Modern State”, p.31, Transaction Publishers

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• I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless.

  Linda Fairstein

  Tired, Next, Scarlett O Hara

  Linda Fairstein (1997). “Final Jeopardy”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won’t. Especially not astrophysicists -we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth. We understand there are bigger problems we need to solve as a species than what God you pray to.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Army, Battle, Needs

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• It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

  Roger Ebert

  Wisdom, Looks, Human Nature

  "Remaking my voice". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• My art school rejection letter arrived as a cold manila fist that closed around my fragile hopes ... The fear was practically edible. Nothing would happen unless I get out and make it happen. Then, as if handling me the keys to the jet pack, my dad bought me a typewriter and a taped message to the inside of its case: "Son - the world is waiting to hear from you".

  Grant Morrison

  Art, Dad, School

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• I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.

  Alex Colville

  Thinking, People, Kind

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• Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Shoes, Soul, Steel

  Scott Westerfeld (2007). “The Last Days”, p.85, Penguin

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