"If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear."
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"I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to."
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"Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life."
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"Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven."
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"Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it."
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"If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly."
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"Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them."
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"The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter."
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"Meet hatred with hatred and you degrade yourself. Meet hatred with love and you elevate not only yourself but also the one who bears you hatred."
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"There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc."
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"Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art."
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"As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable."
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"I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it."
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"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember."
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"The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear."
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"If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not."
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"You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others."
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"To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is being said. Bear in mind I seek neither your approval nor to influence you. So do not make up your mind as to "this is this" or "that is that." I will be more than satisfied if you begin to learn to investigate everything yourself from now on."
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"Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU!"
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"If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself."
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