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It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Appreciate Be Thankful Fragile Go How Ironic Life Many More Realize Still Thankful Things Through Tragedy You

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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

~Adlai E. Stevenson

Topics: Air Annihilation Care Committed Craft Dependent Fragile Give Little Love Only Our Passengers Peace Preserved Reserves Safety Security Soil Spaceship Together Travel Vulnerable Work

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Everyone's more vulnerable than they seem, and I think men are more vulnerable. Once you get close to a man, the whole thing's a facade anyway. I think manhood is fragile.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Anyway Close Everyone Facade Fragile Get Man Manhood Men More Once Seem Than Thing Think Vulnerable Whole You I Think

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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

Topics: Found Fragile Human Identity Moments Most Often Only Thing Truth

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Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.

~Alberto Fujimori

Topics: Been External Faced Fashion Fragile Isolated Now Position Precisely Problems Result Trade Up Very Weak

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Human beings of today are more fragile, whereas people born in wartime, during the Second World War, eventually became the great players like Pele. They were fantastic players.

~Alex Ferguson

Topics: Became Beings Born Eventually Fantastic Fragile Great Human Human Beings Like More People Players Second Second World War Today War Wartime Were Whereas World World War

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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Air Being Being Used Bombs Fragile Fuel Global Global Warming Going Greatly Interconnected Kinds Off Planes Planet Rockets Surprise Those Us Used Various Very War Warming Water Which

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Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

~Alistair Darling

Topics: Austerity Cut Deficits Fragile Global Must Recovery Risks Rush Undermining Yes

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In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.

~Andrew Motion

Topics: Among Aware Because Destructive Environment Fragile Interesting Living Members More Need Other Ourselves Powerful Quite Species Uniquely Us Vulnerable Ways Who

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I loathe having a fragile brain and knowing as I make any plan that I should provide for the possibility that my mind may betray me at short notice.

~Andrew Solomon

Topics: Any Betray Brain Fragile Having Knowing Loathe Make May Me Mind Notice Plan Possibility Provide Short Should

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