#bear

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#bear #because #examination #find #justify

Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle. ↗

— Alvah Bessie

#beard #had #maybe #she #uncle

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#bear #being #certain #convinced #doubts

I can't bear Catholicism. ↗

— George Michael

#catholicism #i

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. ↗

— Josh Billings

#bear #everyone #ice #more #see

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#bears #bodily #frame #his #however

If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don't understand that it's part of being in show business, then I'd better go work in a bank. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#bad #bank #bear #being #better

When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more. ↗

— Jane Birkin

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It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#bearing #benefit #cost #decent #few