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• People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

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• Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Humor, Office, Littles

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• But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian, one must take up his cross, with all of its difficulties and agonizing and tragedy-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its marks upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suffering, Crowns, Christianity

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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• The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.

  John of the Cross

  Understanding, Suffering, Saint

  St. John of the Cross, Thomas Merton (2007). “Counsels of Light and Love of St. John of the Cross”, p.56, Paulist Press

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• The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over; they are united by a secret bond.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Pain, Mean, Secret

  Albert Schweitzer, Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities (1998). “The Primeval Forest”, p.128, JHU Press

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• Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Gun, America, Government

  "Know Your Lawmaker". Guns magazine, p. 4, February 1960.

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• Human kind cannot bear much reality.

  T. S. Eliot

  Reality, Humanity, Kind

  "In Light of India". Book by Octavio Paz, Chapter 1, www.nytimes.com. 1995.

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• I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

  Marian Anderson

  Memories, Issues, Mind

  Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.244, University of Illinois Press

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• I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of Egypt. If you forgive me, I shall rejoice; if you are enraged with me, I shall bear it. See, I cast the die, and I write the book. Whether it is to be read by the people of the present or of the future makes no difference: let it await its reader for a hundred years, if God himself has stood ready for six thousand years for one to study him.

  Johannes Kepler

  God, Book, Writing

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• To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Learning, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Benjamin Franklin, Albert H. Smyth (1905). “Writings, Collected and Ed. with a Life and Introd”

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• Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Children, Science

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.403

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• All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Communication, Race, Intellectual

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.

  Alice Walker

  Pain, War, Heart

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• Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and womankind has devoted to the preparation of dishes that are to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream, like a shadow, and as a post that hastes by, and the air closes behind them, afterwards no sign where they went is to be found.

  Rose Macaulay

  Dream, Men, Thinking

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.75, A&C Black

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• You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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• With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.

  Ronald Reagan

  Responsibility, Gun, Common Sense

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• Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Gun, Years

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• The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

  Patrick Henry

  Gun, People, Second Amendment

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• Young people in particular, I appeal to you: bear witness to your faith through the digital world!....Employ these new technologies to make the Gospel known, so that the Good News of God's infinite love for all people, will resound in new ways across our increasingly technological world!

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Technology, People, News

  "Pope calls for Internet evangelists". www.catholicnewsagency.com. May 20, 2009.

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• I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people, who, despite their constant exposure to messages contrary to the Gospel, continue to thirst for authenticity, goodness and truth. Much remains to be done, particularly on the level of preaching and catechesis in parishes and schools, if the new evangelization is to bear fruit for the renewal of ecclesial life in America.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, School, Thinking

  Pope Benedict XVI's Speech Before The Bishops Of The United States At The National Shrine Of The Immaculate Conception In Washington, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 2008.

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• In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that this organ contains in some recorded form the basis of one's whole conscious life. It contains the record of all our aims and ambitions and is essential for the experience of all pleasures and pains, all loves and hates.

  John Zachary Young

  Pain, Hate, Ambition

  John Zachary Young (1987). “Philosophy and the brain”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• No citizen of this nation is worthy of the name unless he bears unswerving loyalty to the system under which he lives, the system that gives him more benefits than any other system yet devised by man. Loyalty leaves room to change the system when need be, but only under the ground rules by which we Americans live.

  John A. Hannah

  Change, Loyalty, Men

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• We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Flower, Desire, Odor

  Richard Henry Stoddard (1857). “Songs of Summer”, p.152

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• However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Feelings, May, Christianity

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1931). “The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”

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• Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Men, Maturity, Fruit

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1953). “Oratio de Hominis Dignitate: Oration on the Dignity of Man. English Translation by Elizabet Livermore Forbes”

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