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Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. ↗

— John McCain

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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. ↗

— William James

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Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers. ↗

— Charles Eastman

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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. ↗

— John Patrick

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...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. “I understand,” she said. It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had stabbed him through the heart. To him it was the sound of lost faith and it was unendurable. He felt he’d become a kind of god in her eyes, and it was simply impossible to give up her adoration. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

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Love ENDURES and works out ways of enduring the other stuff. ↗

— Jay Woodman

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Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life. ↗

— Bette Davis

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For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade. ↗

— James Forrestal

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