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• Candlelight and red wine? I don't know. Vulnerability catches me off guard every single time.

  Madi Diaz

  Wine, Red, Candlelight

  "Madi Diaz: Loving the Process". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

  Teri Hatcher

  Layers, Carrie

  "Teri Hatcher Tells Vanity Fair She Was Sexually Abused as a Child". abcnews.go.com. March 8, 2006.

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• Love is when you have the opportunity of turning someone's feelings or trust or vulnerability against them, but you don't. You make promises you don't want to keep, but you keep them because they're right; you help people who can't help you back. [...] Love is when you find something so great, sonecessary, that it becomes more important to you than your own goals, than your own life - not because your life has no meaning without it, but because it gives your life a meaning it never had before.

  Dan Wells

  Opportunity, Love Is, Back Love

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• But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Want, Territory, Matter

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• When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.

  May Sarton

  Pet, Deny, Ifs

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.138, Open Road Media

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• At some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me-some because they cared about me and it hurt them to see me in pain; others because I reminded them of their own vulnerability, and that was more than they could handle. But real friends overcame their discomfort and came to sit with me. If they had not words to make me feel better, they sat in silence (much better than saying, "You'll get over it," or "It's not so bad; others have it worse") and I loved them for it.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Hurt, Pain, Real

  "Living a Life That Matters: Resolving the Conflict Between Conscience and Success". Book by Harold Kushner, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2001.

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• Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never quite bought into any kind of 'standard'.

  Hedi Slimane

  Beautiful, Hipster, Needs

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• Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.

  Susan Sontag

  Regret, Destiny, Men

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• First learn to become invincible, then wait for your enemy's moment of vulnerability.

  Sun Tzu

  Waiting, Enemy, Firsts

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• I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

  Helen Mirren

  Strong, Character, Interesting

  "Helen Mirren, ‘Hitchcock’ Star, On Meeting Alfred Hitchcock: ‘I Was Arrogant & Ignorant’". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.

  Graham Joyce

  Together, Emotion, Study

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• I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama.

  Allan Stratton

  Drama, Writing, Character

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• I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

  Brenda Shaughnessy

  Laughter, Heartache, Desperate

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• But trust can take you a long way. And my faith takes me a long way. And I think that our pains, our vulnerabilities, and our insecurities can fuel us to be better. To try harder. To dig deeper.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Pain, Thinking, Long

  "My Faith Pulled Me Through" by Sheila Weller, www.sfgate.com. November 5, 2012.

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• The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.

  Jane Fonda

  Love, Heart, Steps

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• Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern for religion. Then a parent, friend or child dies or he gets a serious illness or is involved in a car accident. In just a matter of weeks, he seeks out and finds the answers to all of life's questions and starts studying and spouting all sorts of doctrine. During such a window of vulnerability, religion can commandeer a person's brain.

  Darrel Ray

  Religious, Children, Serious Illness

  "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.

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• There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

  Rachel Hunter

  Thinking, Feminist, Feminism

  "What I know about men". Interview With Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2006.

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• Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

  Ruth Wilson

  Racism, Groups, States

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• For modelling, you have to be such a strong person in a way – or seen to be a strong person, do you know what I mean? But in acting you have to get in touch with all the vulnerability that you carry.

  Agyness Deyn

  Strong, Mean, Acting

  "Agyness Deyn: 'Who am I?'". Interview with Decca Aikenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2012.

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• I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

  Nan Goldin

  Inspired, My Friends

  Nan Goldin, Taka Kawachi (1998). “Nan Goldin: couples and loneliness”, Korinsha Pr

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• You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.

  Edouard Boubat

  Life Is, Untouchables

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• Trust is the confidence among team members that their peers' intentions are good, and that there is no reason to be protective or careful around the group. In essence, teammates are not comfortable being vulnerable with one another.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Teammate, Groups

  "Five Warning Signs Your Startup Team Is Going To Kill Each Other" by Martin Zwilling, www.businessinsider.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Second issue is the rapidly accelerating increase in the number of vulnerabilities that get discovered every day. And, equally importantly, is the shortening of time between the discovery of the vulnerability and the release of an exploit.

  John W. Thompson

  Discovery, Numbers, Issues

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• Spirituality emerged as a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one another by a force greater than ourselves--a force grounded in love and compassion. For some of us that's God, for others it's nature, art, or even human soulfulness. I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits.

  Brené Brown

  Art, Believe, Compassion

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• Let us remember with humility the loneliness of being man in a universe we do not understand and the vulnerability of the human condition. The animals could do very well without us, but we cannot do without them.

  Gerald Carson

  Nature, Loneliness, Humility

  Gerald Carson (1972). “Men, beasts, and gods: a history of cruelty and kindness to animals”

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