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Fragile Quote by Paul Romer

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“We live in a much more interconnected world now, and that means that it's more fragile than we realize.”

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Charter Cities has been approached in many different ways, by many people acting as individuals or as representatives of organizations.

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I'd rather live in a world where firms don't have these enormous incentives to spy on individuals.

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Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas…

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When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

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The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a…

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I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our…

Julia McNair Wright

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True, the fragile bodies of his fellows do not weigh down his plane; true, the fretful minds of weaker men are missing from his…

Charles Lindbergh

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Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

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There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing…

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Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

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I don't use a hairdryer when it's not necessary; I try to look after my fragile hair.

Sasha Pivovarova

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There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how…

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Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

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Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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