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• it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

  Winifred Holtby

  Ends, Brevity Of Life, Values

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• Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Book, Writing, Men

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Marriage, Heart, Hands

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1873). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.150

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• A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

  Ovid

  Hands, Length, Wounds

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• Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.

  Henry Wallich

  Long, Growth, Income

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• The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.

  William O. Douglas

  Government, Judging, Liberty

  "America Challenged". Book by William O. Douglas, 1960.

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• All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.

  William Saroyan

  Dirty, People, Comedian

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• Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

  Ivan Illich

  Pain, Suffering, Culture

  Ivan Illich (1976). “Limits to medicine”

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• He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every mile of the hot uphill dusty road of tiring duty, on to the judgment seat, the same Christ there as ever, still loving you, still sufficient for you, even then. And then, on through all eternity.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Faith, Morning, Pain

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• It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

  Publilius Syrus

  Deception, Deceived

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• What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a voice of one drowning, and in a moment the silence returns. The world seems to me quite dreadful, the unhappiness of many people is very great, and I often wonder how they all endure it. It is usually the central thing around which their lives are built, and I suppose if they did not live most of their lives in the things of the moment, they would not be able to go on.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Ocean, Night

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• The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

  Walter Lippmann

  Drama, Age, Asian

  "Asia and the West". "New York Herald Tribune" (European edition), (p. 4), September 15, 1965.

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• Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Marriage, Thinking, Too Much

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1777, e-artnow

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• On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hands, May, Telling The Truth

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

  Paul Dickson

  Law, Innovation, Levels

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• The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Tolerance, Permit

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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• There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.

  John Milton

  Reading, Writing, Men

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• The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Degrees, Elegance

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• How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.

  Rose Macaulay

  Selfish, Compassion, Giving

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• Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Shining, Might

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe”, p.293

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• There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Men, Design

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• An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

  John Rawls

  Religion, Morality, Injustice

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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• Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

  Jane Austen

  Play, Tragedy

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.14.

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• Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will-are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.

  Fanny Kemble

  Blessing, Names, Comfort

  Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, ch. 1, 1863.

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• I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.

  Deborah Feldman

  Believe, Ideas, Afterlife

  Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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