#bearing

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#child-bearing #dear #deity #sovereign

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#branch #come #fall #fighter #freedom

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work? ↗

— Gary Becker

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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

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People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood. ↗

— Omar Epps

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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. ↗

— John Updike

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