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- Nov 07, 2020
Fragility Quotes
Lines on how easily things, and people, can be broken.
This fragility quotes collection opens by respecting the fragility of an individual Life, then pushes back against being reduced to a fragile, infantilized symbol.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have found that the only way to give feedback without triggering white fragility is not to give it at all.
- Racial
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- Nov 07, 2020
White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.
- Manifest
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- Nov 07, 2020
White fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
- Grass
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- Nov 07, 2020
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020