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With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

Gail Sheehy

Growth, Way, Vulnerable

Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.

Chuck Mangione

School, Opportunity, Musical

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I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed.

Susannah McCorkle

Kids, Bombarded By, Worry

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How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.

Samuel Beckett

Eye, Simple, Order

"The Unnamable". Book by Samuel Beckett, 1954.

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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Passion, Soul

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October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

J. K. Rowling

Morning, Rain, Winter

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We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe...Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.

Albert Einstein

Reality, Perception, Remember

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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Publilius Syrus

Safety, Danger

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An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

Alec Guinness

Personality, Ego, Acting

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

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Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to

Rod Blagojevich

Jobs, Children, Kids

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People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

Bernard de Mandeville

Opportunity, People, Substance

"The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark C, p. 66, 1732.

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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

Beatrice Wood

Art, Work, Usual

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Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

Naomi Wolf

Self Esteem, Air, Identity

Naomi Wolf (2009). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women”, p.14, Harper Collins

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I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

Marisa Tomei

Art, Artist, My Family

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Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

Ron Paul

Mean, Simple, Generations

"Deficits Make You Poorer" by Ron Paul, www.lewrockwell.com. March 15, 2005.

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The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

Leo Kottke

Firsts, Remember, Stravinsky

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Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.

Bob Kane

Littles, Interviews, Given

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Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

Rudolph A. Marcus

Mathematics, Theory, Marvelous

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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

H. L. Mencken

Art, Errors, Literature

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.434, Vintage

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I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

Young Buck

Talent, Young, Shows

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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

William Shenstone

Essence, Virtue, Fragrance

William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.42

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Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

Jon Ronson

Stories, Nightmare, Compounds

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

Freedom, Government, Political

Letter to Archibald Stewart, 23 Dec. 1791

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Change, Men, Resistance

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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

Daniel Boone

Cowboy, Danger, Situation

William Henry BOGART, Daniel BOONE (1856). “Daniel Boone, and the Hunters of Kentucky. (Seventh thousand.) [With plates.]”, p.75

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