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• Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.

  Steven Pinker

  Memories, Psychology, Mind

  "Steven Pinker: fighting talk from the prophet of peace". Interview with John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2011.

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• Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

  John Podhoretz

  Government, President, Executive Power

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• A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

  Natalie Portman

  Real, Feminist, Weak

  "Natalie Portman: Science's unlikely heroine?" by Sheena McKenzie, www.cnn.com. November 01, 2013.

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• The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  People, Going Out, I've Learned

  Guardian interview, July 4, 2009.

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• If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

  John C. Reilly

  Real, Character, Touching

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• So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Thinking, Taught Us, September 11

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• People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity.

  Mark Ruffalo

  People, House, Actors

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

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• I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

  Salman Rushdie

  Trying, Passionate, Unstable

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• It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

  Salman Rushdie

  Mind, Body, Humans

  "The Art of Bravery: An Interview with Salman Rushdie". Interview with Shaun Randol, lareviewofbooks.org. April 25, 2013.

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  I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.

  Howard Schultz

  Inspirational, Leadership, Being Yourself

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• Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible.

  Steven Seagal

  Hero, Character, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Growing Up, Secret

  "Maurice Sendak's dark visions delighted generations of children" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.

  Michael Sheen

  Thinking, Acting, Be Kind

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

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• A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Ideas, May

  FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Jul 28, 2012

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• Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Ideas, Needs

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• If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Believe, Care, Value Of Life

  "Elections 2012: Who is Really ‘Pro-Life?’" by Joni Eareckson Tada, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Quality, Fragility, Volatility

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• Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Insecure, Ego, Defense

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.28, New World Library

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• Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hurt, Vicious, Aggressive

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• I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.

  Tom Waits

  Crow, Nests, Saws

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• I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

  Amy Winehouse

  Frightened, Appearing

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• Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Hurt, Self

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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• In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Life, Literature, Adults

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• The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Hurt, People, Finding Yourself

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• Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Feet, People, Bully

  "Dyson, Merida React to 'Come On, People'". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 16, 2007.

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