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• Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Fall, Farewell

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

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• Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Never mind, I see what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This works remarkably well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners. One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counselor.

  Brian Kernighan

  Sorry, Learning, Mind

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• The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but last fruits also.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sacrifice, Squirrels, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.259

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• All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination or understanding. Any uncultured cretin can close his eyes and try to reduce the issues down to linear simplisms and say, "I am doubting, I am proving my magisterial or sovereign control over my own mind." Doubt is a useful and significant test of one's critical powers, but by itself it bears little if any significant cultural charge of enlightenment or satori; indeed it is the very opposite kind of thing.

  Kenny Smith

  Eye, Opposites, Issues

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• I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Love, Trust, Self

  Bahá'u'lláh (0101). “Prayers and Meditations”, p.181, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul, helping them ripen, blossom, and bear fruit, allowing us to bring forth the unique gifts that are ours to offer in this life.

  John Welwood

  Love, Unique, Light

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, War, Eye

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 32

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• We're all attracted to the perfume of fermenting joy, we've all tried to start a fire, and one day maybe it will blaze up on its own. In the meantime, she is the one today among us most able to bear the idea of her own beauty.

  Tony Hoagland

  Beauty, Fire, Ideas

  Tony Hoagland, “Grammar”

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• We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of this, show great patience and resignation. For He delays for this reason: that we may offer Him a fitting occasion of honoring us through His divine providence.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Long, Catholic

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• If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Catholic, Trials

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• You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Guilt, Faults, Ifs

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• We need to graduate from the ridiculous notion that greed is some kind of elixir for capitalism - it's the downfall of capitalism. Self-interest, maybe, but self-interest run amok does not serve anyone. The core value of conscious capitalism is enlightened self-interest. As Jim Cramer on CNBC says, "Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered."

  Patricia Aburdene

  Running, Business, Pigs

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• Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Business, Add

  Edmund Burke (1839). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.157

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• The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.

  J. D. Trout

  Learning, Knowledge, Important

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• Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Jesus, Body

  "Why we can't wait".

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• We each were endowed at birth with a unique gift, something we were born to do or become that no one else can achieve the way we can. God's purpose is that we bear abundant fruit and release the blessings of our gift and potential to the world.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Blessing

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• The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

  Faith Popcorn

  Past, Resemblance

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• To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goals—to the best of our ability, whatever that ability may be—and to behave in accordance with that which we see and know.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Goal, Purpose

  Nathaniel Branden (1999). “The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the people and only the pigs have guns, then it's off to the concentration camps, the gas chambers, or whatever the fascists in America come up with. One of the democratic rights of the United States, the Second Amendment to the Constitution, gives the people the right to bear arms. However, there is a greater right; the right of human dignity that gives all men the right to defend themselves.

  Huey Newton

  Taken, Men, Gun

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• The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every form of authority and domination bears a severe burden of proof. It is not self-legitimizing. And when it cannot bear the burden, as is commonly the case, it should be dismantled.

  Noam Chomsky

  Self, Burden Of Proof, Soul

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• Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries-Forbear! With obstinacy fixes there; And where the genius least inclines, Absurdly bends his whole designs.

  Jonathan Swift

  Dog, Horse, Lying

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• Whatever our personal burden or cross to bear might be, we are here. We live! We Learn! The Grand Adventure is under way for us. Terrible as our trials might be, we are blessed and not abandoned by God.

  Elaine A. Cannon

  Blessed, Learning, Adventure

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• Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.

  Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

  Confidence, Men, Sausage

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• Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

  Seth Godin

  Pain, Choices, Saying Yes

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• We can bear the heavy load without asking to have it lightened. We can keep the sorrow now and endure it. We can go on in quiet peace without the new blessing which we thought so necessary. We have not been saved from the battle we shrank so from entering, but we have sought and have gained the victory.

  J.R. Miller

  Adversity, Blessing, Sorrow

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