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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

Publilius Syrus

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Henry David Thoreau

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Henry David Thoreau

Right now banks don't have that much security around checking accounts. Generally speaking, their losses are pretty tolerable.

Avivah Litan

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Bergen Evans

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

The good news is it gives us a year more to get that road in some tolerable shape.

Steve Polzin

For coaches to knowingly violate NCAA regulations is not tolerable at the University. We will not have it.

Robert Thomas

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Up until now, we've done little but complain. Until now, we've stood by, watching native habitat disappear, and with it wildlife of all types. Instead of doing something, we've come to accept our present situation as inevitable and tolerable.

Dennis Anderson

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Anais Nin

We can never get rid of all the mosquitoes, we can only hope to make it semi-tolerable with mosquitoes.

Ronnie Neese

NSAIDs have their own risks. So, we have to be careful even with lower doses and we still need to watch the patients very closely if we intend to keep them on these drugs for extended periods of time. But we are aiming to find doses that are less toxic and far more tolerable for the patient.

David Feldman

With the approval of a pediatric cardiologist, and after careful exercise testing, exercise is generally safe and tolerable for children with congenital heart defects.

Jonathan Rhodes

It's been a good management tool ... It's been effective in controlling the truck traffic so that it is tolerable in the region.

Don Sherwood

The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one; analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

John Rawls

If it is confirmed that it is true, we would be, I insist, facing very serious acts, acts that are not tolerable in any way.

Antonio Alonso

As shaky as a policy of containment is, it is certainly preferable to confrontation, 'rollback,' or 'regime change' through military force. Containment is, in fact, regime change by tolerable means, and the solution to the problems of Iran and North Korea lie in an indirect approach.

Thomas Donnelly

In my opinion, much of the so-called science of "education" was invented as a necessary mechanism for enabling semi-educated people to act as tolerable teachers.

Sloan Wilson