"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable."

Family, Children, Vulnerability

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"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable."

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"Big Brother is watching you."

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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this - and out of nothing - can still count the hairs of my head."

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"Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with everything it attacks."

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