"Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it."
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"Contention, like a horse, Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, And bears down all before him."
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"Human kind cannot bear much reality."
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"It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth."
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"Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals."
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"To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay."
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"Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'"
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"The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately UNDERSTOOD by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are 'familiar."
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"How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value."
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"Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help."
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"I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble."
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"I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else."
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"Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast."
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"Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it."
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"It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks."
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"Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children."
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"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition."
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"The ass bears the load, but not the overload."
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"Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it."
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"Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day."
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