Tolerate Quotes - Page 25

• What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?

  Matthew Crawford

  Bullshit, Personality, Firsts

  Matthew Crawford (2010). “The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good”, p.12, Penguin UK

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• God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Practice, Judging

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• All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Funny, Imperfection, Easier

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• Its funny how human beings tend to think that they're the masters of the earth never realizing that the earth, for a time, simply tolerates its tenants and then, when the mood strikes, it shifts its continents around.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Humanity

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• Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in the world Jewish and Gentile...I do not believe that this primal difference between Gentile and Jew is reconcilable...The difference between us is abysmal...You might say: 'Well, let us exist side by side and tolerate each other. We will not attack your morality, nor you ours.' But the misfortune is that the two are not merely different; they are opposed in mortal enmity. No man can accept both, or, accepting either, do otherwise than despise the other.

  Maurice Samuel

  Lying, Believe, Men

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• Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.

  Jamie Oliver

  Turkeys, Parent, Failing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think Americans would tolerate profiling.

  Jan Brewer

  Thinking

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• In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

  Daniel Dennett

  Hero, Past, Risk

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• Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society is ministerial to the university, and I bless a society that tolerates and supports an eternal childhood for some, a childhood whose playfulness can in turn be a blessing to society.

  Allan Bloom

  Blessing, Thinking, Support

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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• We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world we live in will "tolerate" us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints.

  Rowan Williams

  Destiny, Our World, Guarantees That

  "Our duty to the earth" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2009.

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• We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Answers, Minutes

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication, Inc. (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 78”, p.96, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Real unity tolerates dissent and rejoices in variety of outlook and tradition, recognizes that it is man's destiny to unite and not divide, and understands that creating proletariats and scapegoats and second-class citizens is a mean and contemptible activity.

  Northrop Frye

  Real, Mean, Destiny

  Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham, Jean O'Grady, David Staines (2003). “Northrop Frye on Canada”, p.416, University of Toronto Press

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• For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

  Barack Obama

  Awards, Greed, President

  "Obama Announces Executive Pay Caps". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 5, 2009.

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• Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

  Greg Bear

  Friendship, Long, Inspire

  "Sci-fi scribes on Ray Bradbury: 'Storyteller, showman and alchemist'" by John Joseph Adams, www.wired.com. June 06, 2012.

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• No doubt that anarchist ideas are frightening to those in power. People in power can tolerate liberal ideas. They can tolerate ideas that call for reforms, but they cannot tolerate the idea that there will be no state, no central authority. So it is very important for them to ridicule the idea of anarchism to create this impression of anarchism as violent and chaotic. It is useful for them.

  Howard Zinn

  Ideas, People, Doubt

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon take his own life).

  Steven Morrissey

  Gps, Afternoon, Valium

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• Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Perfect, Mind, Stranger

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Home, Long

  First Speech Before the United Nations General Assembly (64th Session), delivered 23 September 2009, New York, NY

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• It is a very rare church indeed that encourages its members to think for themselves in religious matters, or even tolerates this, and in most of them the clergy are quite ready to lay down the law in other fields too.

  Anne Roe

  Religious, Thinking, Law

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• The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Freedom, Government, Doe

  International Society for Krishna Consciousness v. Lee, 505 U.S. 672, caselaw.lp.findlaw.com. June 26, 1992.

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• Cities tolerate crazy people. Companies don't.

  Geoffrey West

  Crazy, Cities, People

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• Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe those who demand financial compensation for offense ought to have it ended for them.

  Tom Robbins

  Demand, Financial, Offensive

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.201, Bantam

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• the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ... In the age-long war between men and women, she is a hostage in the enemy's camp. Her fortunes do not rise and fall with those of women but with those of men.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  War, Fall, Men

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• Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Freedom, People, Dangerous

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.991, Library of America

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• America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.

  Dick Gregory

  America, Giving, Black History

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