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Tolerable Quotes by Doris Lessing
- The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
- The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any…
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- I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he… — Benjamin Franklin
- Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are… — H. L. Mencken
- Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable,… — Miguel de Unamuno
- Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a… — Fernando Pessoa
- Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights. — Alexander Hamilton