#agility

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys. ↗

— Michael Chang

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I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility. ↗

— Mark-Paul Gosselaar

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There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

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Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. ↗

— Norman Cousins

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He feels a second pang now for the existence of perfection, the stubborn existence of perfection in the most vulnerable of things and in the face of his refusal-logical-admirable refusal-to engage with this existence in his heart, in his mind. For the comfortless logic, the curse of clear sight, no matter which string he pulls on the same wretched knot: (a) the futility of seeing given the fatality in a place such as this where a mother still bloody must bury her newborn, hose off, and go home to pound yam into paste; (b) the persistence of beauty, in fragility of all places!, in a dewdrop at daybreak, a thing that will end, and in moments, and in a garden, and in Ghana, lush Ghana, soft Ghana, verdant Ghana, where fragile things die. ↗

— Taiye Selasi

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