Vulnerable Quotes - Page 35

• Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly attempting to demolish the rock from the outside with hammer and chisel. The later mathematicians resemble expert miners who seek vulnerable veins, drill into these strategic places, and then blast the rock apart with well placed internal charges.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Math, Rocks, Wish

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• Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.

  James T. Walsh

  New York, Safety, Poor

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• Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.

  Victoria Pratt

  Strong Women, Hero, Thinking

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• And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.

  Zach Wamp

  Country, Independent, Issues

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• I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.

  Michael Zaslow

  Sexy, Thinking, Way

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• So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  Progress, Done, Research

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• There are many strengths in modern society, but one of its weaknesses is the breakdown of many of the old structures and networks that supported people in times of crisis and need. Whenever we lose a strengthening element in society, we need to replace it with alternative systems as quickly as possible. Befriending schemes are a crucial part of this process, because they fill the gap that social erosion has left in the lives of so many vulnerable people.

  Richard Holloway

  Erosion, People, Alternatives

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• An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Answers, Feels

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, World, Safe

  Interview with Benjamin Cohen, www.believermag.com. September 2009.

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• Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wallpaper and that our sense of purpose may be derailed by an unfortunate bedspread

  Alain de Botton

  Mean, Purpose, Demand

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• She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

  Emmy Rossum

  Lonely, Heart, People

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• Being vegan is not a matter of "lifestyle." It is a matter of fundamental moral obligation. Is being vegan a matter of "choice"? Only insofar as we are able to choose to ignore our moral obligations not to exploit the vulnerable.

  Gary L. Francione

  Choices, Fundamentals, Matter

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• On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S. Mill. Like Marxism, libertarianism is a utopian worldview based on an economic-determinist vision of history. Unlike Marxism, libertarianism is highly specific in its predictions about the transition to the utopian world order, rendering it vulnerable to fact.

  Michael Lind

  Order, Vision, Transition

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• When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.

  Janet Echelman

  Ideas, Criticism, Young

  "Imagination Becomes Reality" by Janet Echelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security.

  Mark Hatfield

  People, National Security, Educated

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• You're getting like an attitude. What you get put through for just wanting something more out of life. Makes you vulnerable. Inside, that tug of desperation, trying not to be excited, maybe this is it, and it's usually freaks and you want to shout I'm not like you.

  Sandra Newman

  Life, Attitude, Independence

  Sandra Newman (2002). “The only good thing anyone has ever done: a novel”, Vintage

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• Da Free John's phrase kept running through my mind: "Practice the wound of love... practice the wound of love." Real love hurts; real love makes you totally vulnerable and open; real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you. I kept thinking, if love does not shatter you, you do not know love.

  Ken Wilber

  Love, Running, Hurt

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• Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.

  Anna Lindh

  Challenges, Borders, World

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• The most dangerous country for the U.S. now is Pakistan. ... We haven't been this vulnerable since the British burned Washington in 1814.

  Robert Gallucci

  Country, Pakistan, British

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• I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy seems to be a part of an unconditional wish to live, not holding back because life may not meet our preferences and expectations. Joy seems to be a function of the willingness to accept the whole, and to show up to meet with whatever is there. It has a kind of invincibility that attachment to any particular outcome would deny us.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Attachment, Expectations, Joy

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• Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.

  Brené Brown

  Mean, Feelings, Mindfulness

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• People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life. It's not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

  John Stamos

  Mean Girls, Insecure, People

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• No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin.

  Seamus Heaney

  Strong, Tree, Heaven

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• The egos in this industry are incredibly vulnerable and everybody's afraid to wipe out. So everybody plays it safe and everybody tells everybody else how great they are.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Play, Ego, Wipe

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• Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Creativity, Creative, Our Society

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