#precarious

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. ↗

— John C. Ransom

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Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. ↗

— Jane Addams

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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bring #circumstances #commerce #contingent #flourishes

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#complicated #dangerous #iraq #precarious #regional

I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault. ↗

— Richard Hanna

#i #i think #many #precarious #rights

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#agriculture #because #been #ensure #eve

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#place #point #precarious #such #theater