“ Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. ”
- John Patrick- Copy
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“ What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. ”
- Louise Nevelson- Copy
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“ I have come to believe that the one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger, are more bearable than injustice. ”
- Millicent Fenwick- Copy
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“ If a product is more expensive than another one and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it. We're in a very sharp competitive market. ”
- Jean Claude- Copy
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“ There is a comfort in the strength of love;'Twill make a thing endurable, which elseWould overset the brain, or break the heart. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. - Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent. ”
- Barack Obama- Copy
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“ What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work. ”
- Peter MacKay- Copy
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“ If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable. ”
- Horst Koehler- Copy
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“ Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make… your life bearable. ”
- Francine Du Plessix Gray- Copy
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“ The recycling movement is floundering, and its survival depends on continual subsidies, sermons and policing. How can you build a sustainable city with a strategy that can't even sustain itself? ”
- John Tierney- Copy
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“ Short of changing human nature... the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war. ”
- Richard Nixon- Copy
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“ Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. ”
- Fran Lebowitz- Copy
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“ Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. ”
- Kofi Annan- Copy
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“ Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being. ”
- Paul Dickson- Copy
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“ Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos. ”
- Havelock Ellis- Copy
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“ The difference between Art and Life is that Art is more bearable. ”
- Charles Bukowski- Copy
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“ Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain. ”
- Mignon McLaughlin- Copy
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“ The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Alas! How dreary would be the world if there was no Santa Claus!... There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. ”
- Francis P. Church- Copy
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“ Vice goes a long way tow'rd makin' life bearable. A little vice now an' thin is relished by th' best iv men. ”
- Finley Peter Dunne- Copy
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“ Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ I am convinced that today terrorism poses the main threat to human rights and freedoms as well as to the sustainable development of states and people. ”
- Vladimir Putin- Copy
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