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It is most often not our strengths, our courage or our successes that bring two human hearts together, but it is often our shared vulnerability, our fears and our common failures that make us one.

Stefanie Schneider

Heart, Two, Deep Thought

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I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.

Brené Brown

People, Imperfection, Courageous

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When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.

Brené Brown

Joy, Tolerance, Loses

"Dr. Brene Brown: Joy Is ‘The Most Terrifying, Difficult Emotion’", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.

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I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.

Tony Hoare

Pain, Errors, Years

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Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

Bill Gross

Mean, Human Nature, Institutions

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But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the past few thousand years, we have lost our vulnerability to disease and cold and wild animals, but we have also lost good ways to bring up children, look after old people, stave off diabetes and heart disease and understand the real dangers of everyday life.

Jared Diamond

Children, Real, Heart

"Jared Diamond: what we can learn from tribal life" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2013.

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And with the right mentor, don't be afraid to expose your vulnerabilities. Admit you don't know what you don't know. When you acknowledge your weaknesses and ask for advice, you'll be surprised how much others will help.

Howard Schultz

Advice, Mentor, Weakness

Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.

Florence Welch

People, Vulnerable, Intimacy

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Vulnerability is a loaded word, and it can off-putting and terrifying to people. The best moment of my life (and by the way, this actually wasn’t a single moment) was when I realized that I no longer give a damn about what anybody thinks. What you'd talk about as vulnerability, I'd talk about as simply being true to yourself.

Cindy Gallop

Single Mom, Thinking, Giving

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The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial. Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. Vulnerability. You can be assaulted while you are laughing.

Abe Burrows

Taken, Feel Better, People

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What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process, they have grown old together. We can sense the enormous comfort, the shared quality of ease between these people. It is beautiful, and very rare. Without this quality of openness and vulnerability, partners don't really know each other; they are one image living with another image.

Joko Beck

Life, Beautiful, Couple

"Nothing Special". Book by Charlotte J. Beck, ‎Steven A. Smith, 2009.

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At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

Wietse Venema

Respect, Years, Two

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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.

Zach Wamp

Courage, Grateful, Sacrifice

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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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In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

Jan Egeland

Dying, Horn Of Africa, Horns

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Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty.

Alex Shakar

Beautiful, Running, Cities

"Cities Are Beautiful Creatures; 10 Questions For Alex Shakar". Interview with Lindsey Drager, www.hobartpulp.com. October 1, 2011.

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Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

Robert M. Sapolsky

Brain, Behavior, Genes

Robert M. Sapolsky (2004). “Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated”, p.293, Macmillan

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These early decisions can foreclose many opportunities to reshape the patterns of development in a community so as to make it better and safer by reducing vulnerability to future disasters.

Jim Schwab

Opportunity, Community, Decision

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The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

Brené Brown

Courage, Weakness, Looks

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Exposing their own humility and vulnerability is one of the most difficult challenges for white antiracist, even after achieving an autonomous white racial identity.

Eileen O'Brien

Humility, White, Justice

Eileen O'Brien (2001). “Whites Confront Racism: Antiracists and their Paths to Action”, p.109, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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The tendency in our spiritual life but also our more general attitude toward love is that our feelings are all that is going on. And so to us the totality of love is what we feel. But to really love someone requires commitment, fidelity and vulnerability. Mother Teresa wasn't "feeling" Christ's love, and she could have shut down. But she was up at 4:30 every morning for Jesus, and still writing to him, "Your happiness is all I want."

Brian Kolodiejchuk

Love, Faith, Mother

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In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering malls, Calcuttan poverty and sybaritic wealth, biotic impoverishment and economic growth, militarism and terrorism, global domination and utter vulnerability are not different things but manifestations of a single system.

David W. Orr

Perspective, Growth, Environmental

David W. Orr (2012). “The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror”, p.44, Island Press

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Invincibility is in oneself, and vulnerability is in the opponent. Invincibility is a matter of defense, vulnerability is a matter of attack. Therefore skillful warriors are able to be invincible, but they cannot cause opponents to be vulnerable. That is why it is said that victory is discerned and not manufactured.

Sun Tzu

Leadership, Sports, Warrior

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Emotional dependence is the opposite of emotional strength. It means needing to have others to survive, wanting others to "do it for us," and depending on others to give us our self-image, make our decisions, and take care of us financially. When we are emotionally dependent, we look to others for our happiness, our concept of "self," and our emotional well-being. Such vulnerability necessitates a search for and dependence on outer support for a sense of our own worth.

Sue Thoele

Being Yourself, Mean, Emotional

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Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love, Mean, Desire

Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living”, p.127, M-y books ltd

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