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The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing it, and when you're going to do it, and what's going to happen.
Sebastian Coe / British Politician
Fragility
Inability
People Doing Why
Biggest
Explain
Project
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Businesses operating in fragile or conflict-affected environments bear a responsibility to, at the very minimum, do no harm and avoid fuelling conflict or reinforcing fragility.
Peter Maurer /
Conflict
Fragility
Harm
Minimum
Bear
Environments
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I remember when I first saw 'Guided by Voices'; those earlier recordings are so deconstructed, kind of like four-track music, and so artful in their collage and in their weird fragility.
David Longstreth /
Fragility
Remember When
Weird
Artful
Collage
Earlier
Guided
Recordings
Voices
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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 / Author
Money
Defense
Fragility
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When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.
Greg Kinnear / Actor
Beirut
Childhood
Cities
Collapse
Fragility
People
Seeing
Short Time
Thinking
Time Peace Me
Miss
Short
Forced
Grasp
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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 / Philosopher
Facts
Fragility
Reality
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Skinniness is a new fashion. It reflects an obsession with youth, a suggestion of pre-adolescence when a female's fertility can be dominated. It implies vulnerability, feebleness and fragility.
Sara Pascoe /
Fertility
Fragility
Obsession
Vulnerability
Dominated
Implies
Reflects
Suggestion
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I loved Catherine Deneuve, Sophia Loren, and Ursula Andress. They had an incredible strength but fragility at the same time, especially Catherine Deneuve, who had an aloofness that impressed me.
Elizabeth Debicki / Film Actress
Fragility
Impressed
Sophia
Catherine
Time Strength Me
Sophia Loren
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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 / Tv Actress
Fragility
Insecurity
Princess
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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 / Author
Children
Fragility
New Beginnings
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We must understand the factors that cause fragility, violence, and conflict in order to develop solutions that will meaningfully reduce instability at its roots rather than merely addressing the symptoms.
Peter Maurer /
Conflict
Factors
Fragility
Instability
Order
Roots
Solutions
Symptoms
Violence
Addressing
Cause
Develop
Meaningfully
Merely
Reduce
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I was only 13 years old when I was forced to face the fragility of my own life. A routine surgery landed me in a medically induced coma for two weeks with a mere 1% chance of surviving. But survive I did.
Claire Wineland /
Fragility
Mere
Routine
Surgery
Surviving
Two Weeks
Landed
Forced
Induced
Medically
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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 /
Technology
Body
Fragility
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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 / Journalist
Care
Ego
Fragility
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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 /
And Love
Fragility
Self
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Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic.
Ben Bernanke / Economist
Failure
Banking
Fragility
Given
Light
Panic
Risk
Significant
Extreme
Banks
Extent
Major
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When you're younger you feel more invincible - that nothing is ever going to get you down or beat you. When you get a bit older, you realise the fragility of things, how easy it is to get caught out by things - and Ant did.
Declan Donnelly /
Fragility
Ant
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I hoped that being attracted to men might go away, but what I never ever hoped would go away were the feelings of femininity, and of softness and fragility, that could live inside of a boy. They were private, but they were mine.
Arca / Record Producer
Femininity
Fragility
Softness
Attracted
Go Away
Hoped
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The story of Basinski's 'Disintegration Loops' - tapes that destroyed themselves in the transfer to digital - is a parable (again almost too perfect) for the switch from the fragility of analogue to the infinite replicability of digital.
Mark Fisher /
Analogue
Destroyed
Digital
Disintegration
Fragility
Infinite
Loops
Perfect
Again
Almost
Parable
Switch
Tapes
Themselves
Transfer
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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 / Writer
Men
Adults
Fragility
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One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.
Kai Bird /
Anticipation
Anxious
Dread
Fragility
Holocaust
Unseen
Absorb
Horrors
Sensibilities
Survivors
Transmitted
Young Girl
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The fragility created by protracted conflicts, resulting in destroyed cities and dramatically insufficient services, is not something that humanitarian organizations can address comprehensively. Only political solutions can end armed conflicts.
Peter Maurer /
Cities
Destroyed
Fragility
Insufficient
Solutions
Armed
Conflicts
Dramatically
Protracted
Resulting
Services
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I have the deepest admiration for Angela Palmer and her work so having my helmet as her subject has been a true honour for me. I think the sculpture is stunning and very striking, it's the most incredible combination of strength with fragility.
Susie Wolff /
Admiration
Angela
Combination
Fragility
Helmet
Honour
Sculpture
Stunning
Work Strength Me
Palmer
Striking
Subject
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I've always been a big fan of Philip K. Dick; I love his work. There's a returning theme of identity and the fragility of our identity. Even when we are looking at what we think is a stark reality, it might actually be something completely different.
Jack Reynor / Film Actor
Fragility
Philip
Love Work Always
Love Work Reality
Big Fan
Returning
Stark
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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 / Philosopher
Fragility
Shadow
Vanishing
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Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.
Sylvia Earle / Explorer
Beauty
Ocean
Blue
Conservation
Degradation
Fragility
Heart
Scuba
Sea
Strongest
Why
Advocate
Around
Seen
Divers
Personally
Planet
Spent
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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 / Author
Fragility
People
Risk
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It's about surrendering to this feeling of utter fragility, and singing through the volatility of it all. The earth is unstable, and I'm part of the earth. I can feel it coursing through my own body. I feel the energy of everything, flickering. Let's just sing together.
Adrianne Lenker /
Energy
Fragility
Singing
Unstable
Volatility
Utter
Flickering
Sing
Surrendering
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Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such as high social and income inequality. The lines between criminal, inter-communal, and politically motivated violence are often blurred.
Peter Maurer /
Conflict
Factors
Fragility
Income
Income Inequality
Inequality
Wide
Blurred
Criminal
Entrenched
Influenced
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I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently.
Amy Chua / Professor
Behave
Children
Concerned
Fragility
Self Esteem
Thinking
Tough
Western
Assume
Biggest
Biggest Difference
Difference
Immigrant
Noticed
Seem
Therefore
Whereas
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The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.
Homaro Cantu / Inventor
Beauty
Beautiful
Cherry Blossom
Country
Culture
Fragility
Japanese Culture
Significance
Tree
Years
Beauty Life Beautiful
Almost
Also
Back
Blossom
Cherry
Short
Goes
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Japanese
Reminder
Represents
Tragically
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I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.
David Christian / Historian
Complexity
Development
Fragility
Human Beings
Mark
Threshold
Picture
Beings
Collective
Course
Dangers
Planet
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Cities tend to be representations of societies: diversity and inequality find their extremes in urban settings. Yet, when war is added onto pre-existing inequalities, high levels of poverty, or even disaster, urban fragility increases exponentially, making it harder to absorb the shocks of warfare.
Peter Maurer /
Cities
Disaster
Fragility
Levels
Settings
Urban
Warfare
Absorb
Added
Exponentially
Increases
Inequalities
Societies
Onto
Shocks
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If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.
Alber Elbaz / Fashion Designer
Cold
Emotion
Fragility
Individuality
Longevity
Mean
Party
Soul
Collection
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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 /
Fragility
Simple
Survival
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Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
James Hillman / Psychologist
Education
Capitalism
Categories
Different
Fifteen
Fragility
Infrastructure
Loss
States
United States
Admit
Afraid
Backward
Empire
Exceptionally
Fact
In Fact
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I'm one of those introverted people who simply feels a lot better after spending time alone thinking through ideas and emotions. This is a sign, I've come to think, of a kind of emotional disturbance - a reaction to inner fragility. I wish I were more able to just act and do, rather than constantly have to retreat and examine and think.
Alain De Botton / Writer
Alone
Able
Disturbance
Emotional
Feels
Fragility
Ideas
Introverted
Retreat
Spending
Spending Time
Thinking
Wish
Time Thinking Better
Come
Lot
Act
After
Constantly
Through
Simply
Examine
Inner
Rather
Sign
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The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger.
Bill Dedman / Journalist
Daughter
Ambition
Danger
Distance
Engaging
Folly
Fragility
Judging
Reputation
Tension
Wealth
Burdens
Clark
Include
Inherited
Threads
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