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• I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Political, Found

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.77, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Missing, Anorexia, Mind

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• Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from officially consecrated campsites, with no more equipment than they can carry on their backs. When pressed, they babble about snakes or bears or even, by God, bandits. But the real barrier, I'm sure, is the unknown.

  Colin Fletcher

  Real, Sleep, Snakes

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• It is not easy to be the best. You must have the courage to bear pain, disappointment, and heartbreak. You must learn how to face danger and understand fear, yet not be afraid. You establish your goal, and no matter what deters you along the way, in your every waking moment you must say to yourself, "I could do it."

  Betty Skelton Erde

  Pain, Disappointment, Goal

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• Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Age, Faces, Harsh

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• Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fate, Happens, Hard

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of Go has seemed to be endangered by the violence of heresy spread abroad, or by an intolerable moral corruption, or by the attacks of powerful enemies. Ancient and modern history and the more sacred annals of the Church bears witness to public and private supplications addressed to the Mother of God, to help She has granted in return, and to the peace and tranquillity which She has obtained from God.

  Pope Leo X

  Mother, Queens, Powerful

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• I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest! I'm the greatest thing that ever lived. I don't have a mark on my face, and I upset Sonny Liston, and I just turned twenty-two years old. I must be the greatest. I showed the world. I talk to God everyday. I know the real God. I shook up the world, I'm the king of the world. You must listen to me. I am the greatest! I can't be beat!

  Muhammad Ali

  Kings, Real, Years

  "Sound and Fury : Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship". Book by Dave Kindred, 2007.

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• It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Doe, Matter, Succeed

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1439, Random House

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• Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

  Sharon Olds

  Dream, Memories, Ideas

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.

  Peter Brook

  Theatre, Influence, Form

  Peter Brook (1996). “The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.

  Alfred Jarry

  Fighting, Numbers, Psychology

  Alfred Jarry (1961). “Ubu Roi”, p.175, New Directions Publishing

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• You young men of the priesthood, resolve to live the way you should. Don't be caught up in some of the silly things that are going on in the world, but bear in mind what has been given to you.

  David B. Haight

  Silly, Men, Mind

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• Notable characters do not alone bear trouble; they use it.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Character, Use, Notable

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• No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who bear the brunt of the surveillance, leading those who support the government or are merely apathetic to mistakenly believe they are immune. And history shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, Believe, Government

  Glenn Greenwald (2014). “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State”, p.10, Penguin UK

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• Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all of the above. a) it will keep your journalistic ‘muscle’ in practice. b) if you’re any good, you’ll get noticed. And bear in mind you can do these things at other places than conventional news organisations. Many businesses, NGOs, arts organisations, public bodies, universities, etc are now publishers of extremely high quality stuff. Good places to practise your craft before moving on.

  Alan Rusbridger

  Art, Moving, Writing

  "I am Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of the Guardian - the news org that broke the story of NSA surveillance of US citizens - AMAA", rebrn.com. July 31, 2013.

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• Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace, then, put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations, and say continually: 'The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart has trusted in Him and I am helped. He is not only with me but in me and I in Him.'

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Father, Heart, Anxious Thoughts

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• We never try to convert those who receive (aid) to Christianity but in our work we bear witness to the love of God's presence and if Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, or agnostics become for this better men - simply better - we will be satisfied. It matters to the individual what church he belongs to. If that individual thinks and believes that this is the only way to God for her or him, this is the way God comes into their life - his life. If he does not know any other way and if he has no doubt so that he does not need to search then this is his way to salvation.

  Mother Teresa

  Buddhist, Believe, Men

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• Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write sentences of such authenticity that refuge can be taken in them: isn't this enough? Isn't it a lot?

  Jonathan Franzen

  Taken, Writing, Weight

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.84, Macmillan

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• As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking onto the California Senate floor with rifles, demanding that Black people have the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense, made me sit back and take a long look at them.

  Assata Shakur

  Party, Self, California

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• Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.

  Kabir

  Hammers, Admire, Preacher

  "Bijak". Sakhi, 168. Translation by Yashwant K. Malaiya based on that of Puran Sahib,

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• Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months.

  Irving Fisher

  Depression, Point Break, Looks

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• You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Writing, Instruments, Knows

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Stanley Sadie, Fiona Smart (2016). “The Letters of Mozart and his Family”, p.481, Springer

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• Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Mean, Men, Views

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1964). “Signs”, p.77, Northwestern University Press

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• Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.

  A. V. Dicey

  Law, Judging, Faces

  A.V. Dicey, J.W.F. Allison (2013). “The Law of the Constitution”, p.230, Oxford University Press

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