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This is natural. When you're not the victims of the lockdown, you are going to support any measure that makes you safe. Even if you're subject to a lockdown, you might still find it tolerable because it only happens so rarely. – Yanzhong Huang	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is a slightly expanded approach to social distancing that is tolerable and may be what saves us, we need to prevent the virus from erupting with the ferocity that it did in March. – Daniel Griffin	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We can reach a renewable transformation to 95% carbon savings at tolerable cost relative to GDP. – Detlef Stolten	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I favor the public ownership of utilities, banks and major industries. In Vermont we have some $ 2 billion of deposits in our banks, in Vermont, as well as nationally, it is not tolerable to me that the control of capital would remain in the hands of the richest two or three percent of the population to do with it as they like. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 5 years ago
No, you're done, you crossed the line, it's not tolerable to accuse me to be associated with a guy that shot 11 people in Pittsburgh. – Steve King	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The first is that it is a genetically determined marker of cardiovascular risk that cannot be significantly modified with lifestyle changes, the second is that we do not have easily accessible or tolerable therapies to lower Lp(a) levels. The third reason is that medications that lower Lp(a) levels also lower LDL levels, so it has proven difficult to attribute clinically important effects — like a reduction in heart disease and strokes — to Lp(a) lowering alone. – Luke Laffin	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I never got to the point that I thought,' OK, I'm feeling good,' it was always,' OK, this is tolerable.' But yet those thoughts [ of wanting to die ] were still there. – Alan Ferguson	Found on CNN 6 years ago
We would hope as we continue to do this her quality of life will stay good, and it’s something that would set her up for being on a chronic but tolerable medical regimen, it’s a temporary solution, and if there’s new treatments that would benefit her, we’d be the first to share that with her family. – Peter Anderson	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Now we have a situation that is totally not tolerable for the flying public. – Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
One incident is understandable and tolerable. – Miriam Grunstein	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It seems that introduction of solid food for babies that were only breastfed was more tolerable, long-term studies are essential to confirm or not confirm these results. – Andrea Azcarate-Peril	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. – Doris Lessing	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Excuse me, for I must speak plainly. If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable. – R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. – Anais Nin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Science says 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well. – Socrates	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived. – Publilius Syrus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated -- or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be sure, yet strangely deflated of their original meaning and importance. – M. I. Abramowitz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable. – Horace Bushnell	added by anonymous 14 years ago

This is natural. When you're not the victims of the lockdown, you are going to support any measure that makes you safe. Even if you're subject to a lockdown, you might still find it tolerable because it only happens so rarely.

– Yanzhong Huang

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is a slightly expanded approach to social distancing that is tolerable and may be what saves us, we need to prevent the virus from erupting with the ferocity that it did in March.

– Daniel Griffin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We can reach a renewable transformation to 95% carbon savings at tolerable cost relative to GDP.

– Detlef Stolten

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I favor the public ownership of utilities, banks and major industries. In Vermont we have some $ 2 billion of deposits in our banks, in Vermont, as well as nationally, it is not tolerable to me that the control of capital would remain in the hands of the richest two or three percent of the population to do with it as they like.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
5 years ago

No, you're done, you crossed the line, it's not tolerable to accuse me to be associated with a guy that shot 11 people in Pittsburgh.

– Steve King

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The first is that it is a genetically determined marker of cardiovascular risk that cannot be significantly modified with lifestyle changes, the second is that we do not have easily accessible or tolerable therapies to lower Lp(a) levels. The third reason is that medications that lower Lp(a) levels also lower LDL levels, so it has proven difficult to attribute clinically important effects — like a reduction in heart disease and strokes — to Lp(a) lowering alone.

– Luke Laffin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I never got to the point that I thought,' OK, I'm feeling good,' it was always,' OK, this is tolerable.' But yet those thoughts [ of wanting to die ] were still there.

– Alan Ferguson

Found on CNN
6 years ago

We would hope as we continue to do this her quality of life will stay good, and it’s something that would set her up for being on a chronic but tolerable medical regimen, it’s a temporary solution, and if there’s new treatments that would benefit her, we’d be the first to share that with her family.

– Peter Anderson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Now we have a situation that is totally not tolerable for the flying public.

– Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

One incident is understandable and tolerable.

– Miriam Grunstein

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It seems that introduction of solid food for babies that were only breastfed was more tolerable, long-term studies are essential to confirm or not confirm these results.

– Andrea Azcarate-Peril

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

– Doris Lessing

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Excuse me, for I must speak plainly. If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance

– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

– George Bernard Shaw

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable.

– R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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

– Anais Nin