Tolerate Quotes - Page 23

• Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  War, Party, Ruthless

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• The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the allegation that truth is a gift. To have to receive offends those who have determined to take.

  Louis Mackey

  Historical, Principles, Determined

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• The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Artist, Insincerity, Sane

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• A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world, ... Civilization cannot ignore the wrongs that have been done. America will not tolerate their being repeated. Justice has a new mission, a new calling against an old evil.

  John Ashcroft

  Civilization, America, Our World

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• If you are going to call yourself a Christian - and I don't - then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is: Whom would Jesus torture? Whom would Jesus drag around on a dog's leash? How can Christians tolerate it? It is unconscionable. It has put our young men and women who are over there, fighting a war that they should not have been asked to fight - it has put them in greater danger.

  Ron Reagan

  Christian, Dog, Jesus

  "The Way We Live Now: 6-27-04: Questions for Ronald P. Reagan". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. June 27, 2004.

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• The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.

  Steven Pressfield

  Order, May, Want

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.77, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

  Pierre Pettigrew

  Ambition, Iran, Hatred

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• The way that you eliminate bad and ugly is either through activism and policy making that never tolerates evil -- instead of the liberal politically correct policy of accepting evil and accepting other points of views that destroy lives. We the thoughtful, productive people of American have got to take our freedom back.

  Ted Nugent

  Thoughtful, Views, Policy Making

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• Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.

  Abdallah II

  Wall, Diversity, Growth

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• If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

  Nelson Goodman

  Understanding, Given, Clear

  Nelson Goodman (1983). “Fact, Fiction, and Forecast”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.

  John Cleese

  People, Choices, Creative

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• There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, War, Government

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• Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

  Jonathan Tropper

  I've Learned, Pity, Fart

  Jonathan Tropper (2007). “How to Talk to a Widower”, p.99, Bantam

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• In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in the name of that spirit which lives on in our teaching and in our vision of humanity and art, the spirit which can lead us Jews down the true and just path. But along the way, peoples will spill our blood, and that of others.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Teaching, Blood

  "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922". Book by Christoph Vitali, p. 58, 1991.

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• The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young.

  James Hollis

  Simple, World, Able

  James Hollis (2005). “Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up”, p.72, Penguin

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• One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Men, Atheism, Stronger

  Gustave Le Bon, Alice Widener (1979). “Gustave Le Bon, the man and his works: a presentation with introduction, first translations into English, and edited extracts”, Liberty Fund

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• We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

  Albert Einstein

  Differences, Diversity, Welcome

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• I'll tolerate you until I can replace you.

  Mike Tomlin

  I Can

  "Inside Tomlin's style: Humility, words matter for Steelers coach" by Jarrett Bell, USA Today, January 31, 2009.

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• Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.

  Neal Stephenson

  Distance, Loss, Valleys

  FaceBook post by Neal Stephenson from Oct 02, 2011

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• The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt for the affairs of state and its politics for the moral order that their self-respect would not let them tolerate.

  John Carroll

  Self, Order, Giving

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• I am speaking of something that is no longer happening - that is not currently going on. If someone is abusing you, or doing something illegal, or even something you refuse to tolerate, and it's still continuing, that is not an issue of forgiveness, that is an issue of making sure that stops - even if you have to get away from that situation - that's very important.

  Ysabella Brave

  Issues, Important, Illegal

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Forgiveness", www.youtube.com. July 07, 2007.

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• There is a big difference you see between privately letting someone know that you're displeased, whether they've done something they may not be aware of, and just rudeness - and you do not have to tolerate rudeness, by any means.

  Ysabella Brave

  Mean, Differences, Done

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"ysabellabravetalk #1", www.youtube.com. March 09, 2007.

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• We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Childhood, Social

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.117, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• He [Bogie] had tremendous character and a great sense of honor and would not tolerate lies, even if they asked him what he thought of a movie. We were once at a screening at somebody's house, I forget whose, and they ran a movie that he was in, that he never thought much of. Afterward, the producer asked what he thought of it, and Bogie said "I think it's a crock." And this producer was horrified! He was about to release the movie, and he said to Bogie "Why would you say that?!" Bogie shrugged and said "Then don't ask me." He never played the schmoozing game. He was not into that at all.

  Lauren Bacall

  Lying, Character, Thinking

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• Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.

  Marion Woodman

  Mother, Mean, Eating Disorder

  "Addiction to Perfection". Book by Marion Woodman, 1982.

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