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“It was to be a short visit for the G-shevs. More than four days in the U.S. and Raisa's VISA card bill would shatter the fragile Soviet economy.”

Funny Economy Four Humorous Bills Russia Cards Fragile Soviet Visa

Book:Holidays in Hell

Source: Holidays in Hell

“Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die.”

Source: Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization

“Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.”

Writing Book Ideas Fall Emotion Building Falling In Love Fragile Worth It Frustrating Joyous Writing A Book Exhausting Exhilarating

Author:Ben H. Winters

“The Post Office is very careful nowadays. When they get a package marked "Fragile," they throw it underhand.”

Office Careful Christmas Posts Fragile Packages Post Office

Author:Milton Berle

“I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.”

Author:James Broughton

“You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.”

Ideas Self Actors Self Worth No Idea Fragile

Book:Kazan: the master director discusses his films : interviews with Elia Kazan

Source: Kazan: the master director discusses his films : interviews with Elia Kazan

“I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.”

Trying Years Trouble One Thing Stealing Fragile Saddam Wasting Money

Author:Paul Bremer

“Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.”

Kind Hard Play Type Fragile Ethereal

Author:Adelaide Clemens

“The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.”

World Stills Nations United Instruments Fragile United Nations

Author:Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

“I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.”

Ends Hard Feelings Planets Exciting Fragile Ecology

Author:Bear Grylls

“It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery.”

Ifs Country Hard Effort Imagine Example Members Europe Clubs Suits France Fragile Imagine That Rescue Sovereign Periphery

Author:Mohamed El-Erian

“The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.”

Loss Consumers Fragile Rating Unthinkable Consumer Confidence

Author:Mohamed El-Erian

“It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.”

Seems Action Science Death Difficult Millions Modern Revelations Destructive Fragile Rejoice Organisms Units Infatuation Temperament Distinguished Tripods Delphi

Author:William E. Gladstone

“The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. [...] Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. [...] The banking system in China is extremely fragile.”

People Thinking Seems Realizing Clear One Thing Built China Chinese Fragile Banking Banking System Quicksand

Author:James Chanos

“It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself.”