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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. ↗

— Epictetus

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Beware of geeks bearing formulas. ↗

— Warren Buffett

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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work. ↗

— Yves Tanguy

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It desirable to add one or two facts bearing on the domestic political aspects of the problem. ↗

— Dillon Anderson

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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ↗

— Pietro Aretino

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

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Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

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