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• Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Suffering, Degrees

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.754, Delphi Classics

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• If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Compelled, Ifs

  Alvin Toffler (1972). “The futurists”, Random House (NY)

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• Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

  John of Salisbury

  Inquiry, Hardship, Fruit

  John of Salisbury (2009). “The Metalogicon: A Twelfth-century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium”, p.104, Paul Dry Books

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• The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.

  Alison Lurie

  Children, Views, Shopping

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• Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Ideas, Smell

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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• The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

  Garry Trudeau

  Nice, Military, Moving

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• How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kings, Heart, Law

  Lines added to Oliver Goldsmith's The Traveller (1764)

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• A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.

  David Shields

  Book, Should, Existence

  David Shields (2013). “How Literature Saved My Life”, p.197, Vintage

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• The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing, tends always to draw the world into itself and keep it there

  Martin Heidegger

  Self, World, Earth

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• I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me . . . To do things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day . . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mother, 4th Of July, Sleep

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• Love's just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don't have much choice about enduring it! We will, whether we want to or not.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Pain, Choices, Missing

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• Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Advice, Enjoy

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• As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Principles, Generations, Constitution

  Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558, caselaw.findlaw.com. June 26, 2003.

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• Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.

  Napoleon Hill

  Desire, Impossible, Persons

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.40, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

  Napoleon Hill

  Long, Justice, Doe

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.54, Penguin

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• Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them.

  Holly Lisle

  Challenges, Delight

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• In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

  Alain Badiou

  Victory, Encounters, Defeated

  Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong (2012). “In Praise Of Love”, p.45, Profile Books

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• There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  School, Adversity, Iron

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Self, Manhattan, Brooklyn

  Jonathan Lethem (2004). “The Fortress of Solitude”, p.50, Vintage

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• The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ideas, Way, Next

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a larger community. I out-grew my uniforms and badges years ago, but the memories of visiting nursing homes or organizing Earth Day tree plantings or my summers camping with girls from all different backgrounds will stay with me always.

  Natalie Merchant

  Girl, Summer, Memories

  "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect", abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

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• Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.

  Democritus

  Mildness, Magnanimity

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• You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

  Frank Herbert

  Pain, Animal, Might

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.16, Penguin

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• Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, Sadness, Men

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• Have patience, and endure

  William Shakespeare

  Creativity, Creative, Having Patience

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.221, BookCaps Study Guides

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