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Tag Name "Tolerable" (77)

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It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
Robert Hass
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No previous civilization has been able to achieve it, nor can we see even in the remote distance, that day of the Messiah, when national barriers will no longer exist and all mankind will live in brotherhood and concord. Until then, the nations must narrow their aspirations to achieve a tolerable modus vivendi.
Leon Pinsker
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I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.
David James
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If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right ar**hole.
Russell Brand
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The best known evil is the most tolerable.
Livy
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
Doris Lessing
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I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you, the vast majority of the time. So far as I can gather, you behave abominably in public and are only marginally better in private. I only find you remotely tolerable when you're kissing me.
Tessa Dare
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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.
Mark Twain
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We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.
Ernst Toller
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It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
Thomas Jefferson
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Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.
Mason Cooley
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Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.
Eyvind Johnson
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Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.
Mignon McLaughlin
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With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable.
Gene Simmons
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Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.
William Boyd
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Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
H. L. Mencken
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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
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It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
Publilius Syrus
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Fire is the most tolerable third party
Henry David Thoreau
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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
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Good-humor makes all things tolerable
Henry Ward Beecher
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Adam Smith
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