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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. ↗

— Horace

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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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

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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

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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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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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It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

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