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precarious

«The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.»
«Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.»
«A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.»
«Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.»
«Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other»
«All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.»
«The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate /a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes /he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.»