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But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

Mark Twain

Country, Usa, People

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Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience’s opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.

Chuck Jones

Fall, Coyotes, Too Much

"Stroke of Genius, A Collection of Paintings and Musings on Life, Love and Art". Book by Chuck Jones, p. 78, 2007.

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But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirits strong even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

Nelson Mandela

Strong, Secret, Survival

Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.264, Hachette UK

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You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering, that’s the sad truth. Maybe they’ll break your heart, maybe you’ll break their heart and never be able to look at yourself in the same way. Those are the risks. You see two people and you think they belong together, but nothing happens. The thought of losing so much control over personal happiness is unbearable. That’s the burden. Like wings, they have weight, we feel that weight on our backs, but they are a burden that lifts us. Burdens that allow us to fly.

T. J. Thyne

Heart, Thinking, Wings

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To feel overflowing love and almost unbearable compassion for all living creatures is the best way to fulfil the wishes of all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Even if for the moment you cannot actually help a sentient being in an external way, meditate on love and compassion constantly over the months and years until compassion is knit inseparably into the very fabric of your mind.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Compassion, Years, Mind

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It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Men, Rights, Gauges

Alexis de Tocqueville, Roger Boesche, James Toupin (1986). “Selected Letters on Politics and Society”, p.296, Univ of California Press

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To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existenceof a ghost).

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Being In Love, Islands, Want

Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books

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In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable

Winston Churchill

Military, Defeat, Unbeatable

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A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Courage, Heart, Needs

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If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing.

Donald Harington

Disappointment, Loneliness, Writing

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It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human race is based on.

Christa Wolf

Race, Goes On, Bears

Medea ch. 10 (1996) (translation by John Cullen)

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Life is a journey one that much better traveled with a companion by our side. Sometimes, we lose our companions along the way and then the journey becomes unbearable. You see, human beings are designed for many things, but loneliness isn't one of them.

Mary Alice

Loneliness, Journey, Sides

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I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.

Richard Ernst

Air, House, Parent

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Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared.
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Ram Dass

Running, Fearless, Bears

Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.81, Harmony

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Futurists are already predicting the day mankind builds its replacement, Artificial Intelligence. Daniel Wilson shows what might happen when that computer realizes its creators are no longer needed. Lean prose, great characters, and almost unbearable tension ensure that Robopocalypse is going to be a blockbuster. Once started I defy anyone to put it down.

Jack Du Brul

Character, Might, Computer

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It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.

Jack Kornfield

Past, Suffering, Would Be

Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.

Isabelle Huppert

Energy, Normal, Whole

"Isabelle Huppert (I)". Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

William Gibson

Thinking, Guilty, Absence

Source: craphound.com

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If the grim realities you are facing at this time seem dark and heavy and almost unbearable, remember that in the soul-wrenching darkness of Gethsemane and the incomprehensible torture and pain of Calvary, the Savior accomplished the Atonement, which resolves the most terrible burdens that can occur in this life. He did it for you, and He did it for me. He did it because He loves us and because He obeys and loves His Father. We will be rescued from death-even from the depths of the sea.

Quentin L. Cook

Pain, Father, Dark

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You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)

Marcel Duchamp

Photography, Thinking, People

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No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.

Phillips Brooks

Tomorrow, Burden, Load

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For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival. And I survived. I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped into strait-jackets and half-drowned in ice baths. And I survived. The asylum itself was a steel trap, and I was not released from its jaws alive and victorious. I crawled out mutilated, whimpering and terribly alone. But I did survive.

Frances Farmer

Being Alone, Cells, Years

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There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself.

Robert A. Heinlein

Men, Nuisance, Way

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.138, Penguin

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I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me.

Albert Einstein

Profession

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.25, St. Martin's Press

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To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do the wrong thing, etcetera, it's just unbearable.

Omar Sharif

Stupid, Directors, Etcetera

"Omar Sharif: knave of hearts" by Tim Dowling, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2004.

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