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  The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Positive, Sports

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3045, Library of Alexandria

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• I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

  Ben Affleck

  Swag, Insecurity, Feels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

  Max Eastman

  Art, Romance, Chance

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• Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jealousy, Rivals, Injustice

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1052, Library of America

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• Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Gossip, Erotic, Flavor

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• Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.

  Piers Corbyn

  Years, Hype, Deceit

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• Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Truth, Intelligent, Light

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

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• Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Diversity, Enemy

  "The Christian Science Monitor", April 1, 1974.

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• We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

  Plutarch

  Motivation, Crazy, Inspiration

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• Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

  Madame de Stael

  Creativity, Creative, Genius

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Mean, Virtue

  Ezra Pound (1968). “Literary Essays of Ezra Pound”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

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• We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  'The Descent of Man' (1871) closing words

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• It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Hilarious, Military

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• Those who can bear all can dare all.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Endurance, Dare

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• He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

  Henry Fielding

  Literature, Insolence, Contempt

  "The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume".

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• I have only my own burden to bear.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Challenges, Burden, My Own

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Nice, Use, Done

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• How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.

  Hesiod

  Light, Literature, Difficult

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• Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

  William Faulkner

  Broken Heart, Giving Up, Kindness

  Light in August ch. 13 (1932)

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• What makes loneliness an anguish
  Is not that I have no one to share my burden,
  But this:
  I have only my own burden to bear.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Being Lonely

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

  Edmund Barton

  Education, Taxation, Burden

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• Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

  Hosea Ballou

  Justice, Burden, Commit

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• The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

  Samuel Richardson

  World, Persons

  Samuel Richardson (1862). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprenhending the Most ...”, p.44

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• Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

  Saint Augustine

  Children, Ambition, Work Out

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