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• No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

  Solon

  Nations

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• Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.

  Michael Moorcock

  Home, Koalas, Bullshit

  Michael Moorcock (2009). “The Best of Michael Moorcock”, p.146, Tachyon Publications

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• Once you plant seeds of success, your tree will bear fierce fruit.

  Tyra Banks

  Tree, Top Model, Fruit

  "America's Next Top Model", Cycle 12, April 22, 2009.

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• Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Mistake, Media, Editors

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• Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made to act upon itself makes of man a God. First, let us be Gods, and then help other to be GOds. Be and Make. Let this be our motto.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Helping Others, Men, Matter

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1746, Manonmani Publishers

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• I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Writing, Skulls, Silent

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• Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds - the invisible shared out in endless abundance.

  Denise Levertov

  Morning, Rain, Winter

  Denise Levertov, “Bearing The Light”

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• Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul here and there finds it more than it can bear? Shall there be no strong meat at table because there happen to be some guests there whose stomachs are weak, or who have spoiled their own digestions?

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Strong, Soul, Meat

  E. T. A. Hoffmann (2015). “The Mutual Interdependence of Things (Fantasy and Horror Classics)”, p.54, Read Books Ltd

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• When the door shuts another opens. He that would struggle with the world, and bear up in adversity, ought still to resolve not to be discouraged, for resolution is the mother of fortitude, and not only necessary to our support, but very much conducive to our deliverance.

  Samuel Palmer

  Mother, Struggle, Adversity

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• This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.

  William Shakespeare

  Crush, Men, Elephants

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes : with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.229

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• Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sympathy, Christian, Pain

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• Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.

  Alexander Pope

  Brother, Jealous, Thrones

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.340

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• Now, as the world's largest economy and as the world's second largest emitter, America bears our responsibility to address climate change, and we intend to meet that responsibility.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, America, Climate

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• Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them, they have charming names, the softest in the language; and each of them, like tiny, art-less ex-votos, or like medals bestowed by the gratitude of men, proudly bears three or four.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Gratitude, Art, Wall

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1905). “Old Fashioned Flowers: And Other Out-of-door Studies”

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• In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Change, Thinking, Years

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• It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Wisdom, Intuition, Fruit

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.185, Princeton University Press

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• January cold and desolate;
  February dripping wet;
  March wind ranges;
  April changes;
  Birds sing in tune
  To flowers of May,
  And sunny June
  Brings longest day;
  In scorched July
  The storm-clouds fly,
  Lightning-torn;
  August bears corn,
  September fruit;
  In rough October
  Earth must disrobe her;
  Stars fall and shoot
  In keen November;
  And night is long
  And cold is strong
  In bleak December.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Stars, Spring

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.128, Everyman's Library

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• All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation?

  Harriet Martineau

  Sex, Iron, Race

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.179

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• The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.

  John Fowles

  Writing, Ignorance, Reality

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• The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Knowing, Doors

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• A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Thinking, Long

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• Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.

  Francine Mathews

  Friendship, Fashion, Stuff

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• It is my conviction that if any professional biologist will take adequate time to examine carefully the assumptions upon which the macro-evolution doctrine rests, and the observational and laboratory evidence that bears on the problem of origins, he/she will conclude that there are substantial reasons for doubting the truth of this doctrine. Moreover, I believe that a scientifically sound creationist view of origins is not only possible, but it is to be preferred over the evolutionary one.

  Dean H. Kenyon

  Believe, Views, Doubt

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• Father of mercy and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and impart to me the blessing which flows from this holy Sacrament. Overshadow me with Your loving kindness, and let this divine Mystery bear fruit in me.

  Saint Blaise

  Love, God, Christian

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• One who wants to wear the crown, bears the crown.

  Lee Min-ho

  Crowns, Want, Heirs

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