fragility

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9ff86dc	Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.	fragility jocelyn-fray	Cassandra Clare
c592b5f	It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.	fragility	Neil Gaiman
cf890f4	Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone. Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who would always get what she wanted, no matter who or what stood in her way.	changed doll fair fragile fragility gone made obstacles porcelain she someone steel turned-into used-to-be wants	V.C. Andrews
078418c	We're all so damned fragile.	fragility human-frailties	Jim Butcher
ba398d9	...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse.	fragility internet-addiction modern-values modernity modernity-is-a-sickness nerd nerdiness nerds robustness wisdom-vs-nerdiness	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
00b158e	Some blows fall too heavy upon those too fragile.	fragile fragility heavy pain weakness	George Saunders
a2ce3f2	He is fragile, like a prince of ice, of glass.	fragility royalty	Philippa Gregory
1a0e8ef	We go back to the Dark Ages! The crust of learning and good manners and tolerance is so thin! It would just take a few thousand big shells and gas bombs to wipe out all the eager young men, and all the libraries and historical archives and patent offices, all the laboratories and art galleries, all the castles and Periclean temples and Gothic cathedrals, all the cooperative stores and motor factories--every storehouse of learning. No inherent reason why Sissy's grandchildren--if anybody's grandchildren will survive at all--shouldn't be living in caves and heaving rocks at catamounts.	culture dark-ages fragility	Sinclair Lewis

Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.

Cassandra Clare

c592b5f

It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

fragility

Neil Gaiman

cf890f4

Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone. Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who would always get what she wanted, no matter who or what stood in her way.

changed doll fair fragile fragility gone made obstacles porcelain she someone steel turned-into used-to-be wants

V.C. Andrews

078418c

We're all so damned fragile.

fragility human-frailties

Jim Butcher

ba398d9

...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse.

fragility internet-addiction modern-values modernity modernity-is-a-sickness nerd nerdiness nerds robustness wisdom-vs-nerdiness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

00b158e

Some blows fall too heavy upon those too fragile.

fragile fragility heavy pain weakness

George Saunders

a2ce3f2

He is fragile, like a prince of ice, of glass.

fragility royalty

Philippa Gregory

1a0e8ef

We go back to the Dark Ages! The crust of learning and good manners and tolerance is so thin! It would just take a few thousand big shells and gas bombs to wipe out all the eager young men, and all the libraries and historical archives and patent offices, all the laboratories and art galleries, all the castles and Periclean temples and Gothic cathedrals, all the cooperative stores and motor factories--every storehouse of learning. No inherent reason why Sissy's grandchildren--if anybody's grandchildren will survive at all--shouldn't be living in caves and heaving rocks at catamounts.

culture dark-ages fragility

Sinclair Lewis