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• If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Selfish People, Psychology, Selfishness

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.48, Publishdrive

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• What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

  Gilbert Highet

  Support, Political, Promise

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• The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Government, Discovery, America

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• There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Dental Work, Endurance

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 5, sc. 1, l. 35

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• I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Believe, Sacrifice

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• It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fate, Men, Important

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1967). “Three Hainish Novels”

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• Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Ignorance, Kids

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 08, 2011

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• Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Change, Christian, Causes

  "He Came from Galilee". Book by Parker B. Brown, 1974.

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• Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

  Ronald Reagan

  Christian, Religious, Long

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.

  Livy

  Vices, Cures

  Livy (1977). “Titus Livius”

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• Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

  Ovid

  Good Day, Sorrow, One Day

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• This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

  Winston Churchill

  Courage, Time, Not Giving Up

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Mind, Literature, Body

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• Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Success, Congratulations, Achievement

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• It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

  Julius Caesar

  Patience, Pain, Bad Ass

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• Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Break Up

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• The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Eye, Soul

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• The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Suffering, Saint

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

  Roald Dahl

  Pain, Doctors, Knives

  Roald Dahl (2016). “Boy and Going Solo”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

  Nick Rahall

  Equality, Law, People

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• January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Evil, Theatre, Months

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  Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Life, Drinking

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• It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false

  Emile M. Cioran

  Imposter

  "A short history of decay".

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• Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

  Nick Clooney

  Historical, Might, Matter

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• I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

  Arthur Miller

  Credit, Dare, Knows

  The New York Herald Tribune, March 31, 1954.

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