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Your fragility is also your strength.
Pina Bausch
Your vulnerability is also your power.
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To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.
Martha C. Nussbaum
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
Jean Genet
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White means the strength of fragility and the fragility of the passage of time.
Martin Margiela
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Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.
Kofi Annan
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Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.
Peter Rollins
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For me, a good portrait shows the fragility and humility of the person, and at the same time a strength, a resting in themselves.
Wolfgang Tillmans
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...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
Walter Scott
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
Jean Genet
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I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.
Gabrielle Roy
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Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.
Jalaja Bonheim
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The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.
William P. Young
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Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point for everything. How can one meditate on live without meditating too on its brevity, its precariousness, its fragility?
Andre Comte-Sponville
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Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
Simone Weil
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Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.
Jose Saramago
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We achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demands that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new.
Jalaja Bonheim
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Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Michael Fassbender is a very masculine person. But he has a fragility that allows him to have a relationship with an audience that has no barrier.
Steven R. McQueen
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I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so 'actual' in a way, so modern.
Cecilia Bartoli
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An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
Edmund Burke
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My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.
Tony Blair
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nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility
e. e. cummings
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I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
David LaChapelle
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The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.
Natalia Ginzburg
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Technology represents intelligence systematically applied to the problem of the body. It functions to amplify and surpass the organic limits of the body; it compensates for the body's fragility and vulnerability.
Shoshana Zuboff
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Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.
Charles Lamb
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things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision
e. e. cummings
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A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.
Richard Kinder
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What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us
Jeff Jarvis
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I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world.
Lillian Bassman
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I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.
Ishmael Beah
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Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way for me to separate this from my poems.
Alex Lemon
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He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing
Paulo Coelho
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At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always got the education ever since David [Edward VIII] abdicated.
Vanessa Kirby
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Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
Irwin Redlener
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He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved between comprehensibility and fragility? Perhaps simple on the outside/fragile on the inside can be an effective survival strategy for evolving artifacts.
Brian Foote
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But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.
William Hurt
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Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.
Camille Paglia
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A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult oath, one that would follow her into adulthood, to the States and beyond. I will not serve.
Junot Diaz
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Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.
Peter Drucker