Tolerate Quotes - Page 27

• The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.

  David Blankenhorn

  Children, School, Men

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• As for the tenets of the Brahmans, we are not so much concerned to know what doctrines they held, as that they were held by any. We can tolerate all philosophies.... It is the attitude of these men, more than any communication which they make, that attracts us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Attitude, Philosophy

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

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• Victory cannot tolerate truth.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Victory

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• There is a danger in becoming an icon, as people can see you as remote and untouchable, and they are less willing to tolerate you doing things that don't fit with their preconceived idea of you. Iconic status can be like a pair of handcuffs, especially if, like me, you wish to continually stretch yourself creatively, as Warhol did.

  Giorgio Armani

  Ideas, Icons, People

  Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2008.

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• Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Teaching, Tolerance

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• If you dont tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

  Jennifer Pahlka

  Risk, Ifs

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• I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these old guys who's running around, and the guys I play with, who are all a lot younger, they sort of pity me and sympathize with me. They tolerate me, but we all know that I'm the weak link on the court. And I don't like being the weak link.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Player, Guy

  "A Tribute to Barack Obama's Once Great Basketball Skills" by Jack Moore, www.gq.com. August 4, 2015.

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• So far as the government is concerned, there is ­only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. The unity and the integrity of the country are the topmost priorities. All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Integrity, Book

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim and Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 07, 2015.

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• One difference between libertarianism and socialism is that a socialist society can't tolerate groups of people practicing freedom, but a libertarian society can comfortably allow people to choose voluntary socialism. If a group of people - even a very large group - wanted to purchase land and own it in common, they would be free to do so. The libertarian legal order would require only that no one be coerced into joining or giving up his property.

  David Boaz

  Giving Up, Order, Land

  "The Coming Libertarian Age". Cato Policy Report, January/February 1997.

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• I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Ideas, World, Agnostic

  "The Melting - Pot Revisited: Twenty Well - Known Americans of Polish Background". Book by Olgierd Budrewicz, 1977.

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• America will not tolerate being pushed around by anybody, anyplace.

  Richard M. Nixon

  America

  1960 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 28 July 1960, International Amphitheatre, Chicago, IL

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• The one thing ... maybe no family could tolerate was things coming out into the open.

  Jane Smiley

  Family, Coming Out, One Thing

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• If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!

  Arlene Francis

  Tolerance, Ridicule, Ifs

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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• But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a useful member of society, yet he is only ranked with the hangman, whom we tolerate because he executes the judgment we abhor to do ourselves, and avoid with a natural detestation of his office. The pen of the one and the cord of the other are inseparable in our minds.

  Jane Porter

  Office, Mind, May

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• The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.

  Benjamin Graham

  Men, People, Imperfection

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part V, Chapter XIX, The Reservoir Plan and Tradition, p. 234, 1937.

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• Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

  Hinton Rowan Helper

  Independent Judiciary, Freedom Of Speech, Slavery

  Hinton Rowan Helper (1860). “The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it”, p.436

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• The worship of the nation has been able to make men tolerate under its authority what they could never have tolerated from princes: a submission to rule, which, through sumptuary laws on food and drink, through conscription, through a cast-iron system of compulsory instruction for all on State ordered lines, and through a State examination at the gate of every profession, has almost killed the citizen's power to react upon that which controls him, and has almost destroyed that variety which is the mark of life.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Law

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• Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

  Raymond Aron

  Atheism, Events, Chance

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• I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Men, Champion, Tolerance

  Phyllis McGinley, “The Angry Man”

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• Do more of what you love, less of what you tolerate and none of what you hate.

  John Assaraf

  Love, Inspirational, Hate

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Mar 07, 2017

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• In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. if someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Self, Abuse, Littles

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• I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

  Beverly Sills

  Thinking, People, Cheerful

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• Bearing ourselves humbly before God... we await undismayed the impending assault.... be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parlay; we may show mercy - we shall ask for none.

  Winston Churchill

  Long, May, Mercy

  "War of the Unknown Warriors", BBC Broadcast, London, winstonchurchill.org. July 14, 1940.

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• Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?

  Rachel Carson

  Home, Circles, Insanity

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth is like nothing that has happened in all of geologic history. The world will only tolerate so many doublings of anything -- whether it's power plants or grasshoppers.

  M. King Hubbert

  Years, Growth, Population

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