Lester B. Pearson Quotes
Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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What is wealth? A dream of fools.
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Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
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I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.
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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.
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When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.
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I never meant it," he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are saved, will become for us eternal joys. When infirmities, pains, or any adversities afflict us, let us lift up our eyes to heaven and say, "One day all these pains will have an end, and after them I hope to enjoy God forever."
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The world has been made by fools that men should live in it.
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
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Some people seem to be born to suffer.
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Fools make news, and wise men carry it.
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New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.
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Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her.
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Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
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The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.
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There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
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Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.
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There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.
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Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.
