#durable

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#individuals #made #original #probably #society

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. ↗

— William James

#doomed #even #find #life #unendurable

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. ↗

— George Saunders

#actually #consciousness #course #create #day

The word of man is the most durable of all material. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#man #material #most #word

I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#believe #broadcaster #commercial #durable #fee

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#commitment #durable #durable peace #environment #message

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#find #get #injustices #life #men

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable. ↗

— Voltaire

#let us #life #make #only #theorizing

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#continue #decades #durable #even #grow

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate. ↗

— Sarah Caldwell

#collaborate #endurable #love #music #only