#bearing

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. ↗

— John Updike

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I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it. ↗

— Ted Kulongoski

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While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate. ↗

— Kathe Kollwitz

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Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product. ↗

— Ed McMahon

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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't that be freaky? Whereas the probability is high that there is a vast reality that we have no way to perceive, that's actually bearing down on us now and influencing everything. ↗

— George Saunders

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Beware of geeks bearing formulas. ↗

— Warren Buffett

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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. ↗

— Horace

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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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