#precarious

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them. ↗

— David Levithan

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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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Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. ↗

— John Donne

#inconstancy #instability #love #passage-of-time #precariousness

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adventure #always #good #guarantee #inevitability

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious. ↗

— Larry David

#just #precarious #relationship #tenuous

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

— Joschka Fischer

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

— Richard Hanna

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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

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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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