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• Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

  Ogden Nash

  Marriage, Roots, Growing

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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

  Fashion, Drug, Problem

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• An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Break A Leg, Elephants, Growth

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• Your spiritual family is even more important than your physical family because it will last forever. Our families on earth are wonderful gifts from God, but they are temporary and fragile, often broken by divorce, distance, growing old, and inevitably, death.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Spiritual, Distance

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  History, Realising, Civilisation

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• Freedom is like holding a small bird. If you squeeze it too hard, you will kill it. But if you don't hold it firmly enough, it will fly away. Indeed, freedom can be both fragile and elusive, and so-as the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum so powerfully reminds us-it requires our eternal vigilance, our willingness, our ability, our conviction to stand up for that which we think is right.

  Alex Kotlowitz

  Thinking, Museums, Bird

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• I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless.

  Linda Fairstein

  Tired, Next, Scarlett O Hara

  Linda Fairstein (1997). “Final Jeopardy”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

  David Duval

  Precious Things

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• The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the extent of their leverage makes the financial system fragile, and it clearly and patiently demolishes all the counter-arguments made by the banks and their lobbyists.

  Diane Coyle

  Powerful, Simple, Clothes

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• Later when I thought of the chickens, one of those rare pale blue eggs rose up into my throat. The chickens had been part of our family, and the egg in my throat was the feeling of something missing. It was hard and smooth and heavy, but also so fragile it might break and make me cry. It was the feeling of growing out of a favorite shirt, milk spilled on the floor, the last bit of honey in the jar, falling apple blossoms. It was the lump in the throat behind everything beautiful in life.

  Melissa Coleman

  Beautiful, Fall, Blue

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• I'm learning how much I have to learn, how little I know, how fragile my understanding is. I'm learning to be thankful and patient; today is all that we will ever have in this life. If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed. The wise man seeks God in the now and brings both his regrets and fears before Him. The freedom that we are offered is truly amazing: to live, today, free from even our own fallen desires. This is where I want to be.

  Jon Foreman

  Wise, Regret, Past

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• Everything felt fragile and freshly come upon, but for now, at least, my depression had stepped back, giving me room to move forward. I had forgotten what it was like to be without it, and for a moment I floundered, wondering how I would recognize myself. I knew for certain it would return, sneaking up on me when I wasn’t looking, but meanwhile there were bound to be glimpses of light if only I stayed around and held fast to the long perspective. It was a chance that seemed worth taking.

  Daphne Merkin

  Moving, Light, Long

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• I think you're a little more fragile when you're younger.

  Mats Sundin

  Thinking, Littles

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• Our time here on the earth is short, and our chance to make a difference is tiny. For me the grinding blocks of history came together in such a way that I was able to take what fragile defense I had and hold in place for seventy-six days. If I was able to give much it was only because I had some useful things from my life to give. I am a hotel manager...my job never changed, even in a sea of fire.

  Paul Rusesabagina

  Jobs, Block, Sea

  Paul Rusesabagina (2009). “An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda”, p.131, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved.

  Scott Cunningham

  Book, Simple, Wind

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.101, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

  Elizabeth Loftus

  Memories, Liberty, Fragile Things

  "Memory's Future". Interview with William Calvin, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 2001.

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• For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.

  Iain Pears

  Blow, Men, Reputation

  Iain Pears (1999). “AN Instance of the Fingerpost”, p.404, Penguin

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• This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology from The Origin of Species. To establish the continuity required by theory, historical arguments are invoked, even though historical evidence is lacking. Thus are engendered those fragile towers of hypothesis based on hypothesis, where fact and fiction intermingle in an inextricable confusion.

  W. R. Thompson

  Mean, Confusion, Historical

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• The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.

  Bernie Krause

  Sound, Needs, Torn Apart

  "A great silence is spreading over the natural worl" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2012.

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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

  Simple, Survival, Fragility

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• Small yet strong in the love of God, like Saint Francis of Assisi, all of us, as Christians, are called to watch over
  and protect the fragile world in which we live, and all its peoples.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Strong, Saint

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.63, BookBaby

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• Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

  Lian Hearn

  Prayer, Life Is, Spells

  Lian Hearn (2008). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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• The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be.

  Chuck Schuldiner

  Art, Dwelling, Self

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• From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe, that you can block it out with your thumb. Then you realize that on that spot, that little blue and white thing, is everything that means anything to you — all of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love, tears, joy, games, all of it right there on that little spot that you can cover with your thumb. And you realize from that perspective that you’ve changed forever, that there is something new there, that the relationship is no longer what it was.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Art, Block, Mean

  "Reflections From Paris and Beirut" by Samie Al-Achrafi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2015.

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