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• It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

  Maggie Smith

  Elderly, Fool, Maggie

  "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

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• I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.

  Helen Thomas

  Thinking, Two, People

  Phone interview on "The Majority Report" with Sam Seder, April 2, 2004.

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• Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it

  Bono

  Christian, Jesus, Doe

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• I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.

  Nina Simone

  Thinking, Vaccines, Forever

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• Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.

  Garrison Keillor

  People, Eccentric, Mouths

  "A Prairie Home Companion". Radio show, December 13, 1997.

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Forgiving, Merit, Virtue

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• Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

  William Arthur Ward

  Adversity, Humanity, Affliction

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• The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

  James Thurber

  Taste, Comedy, Dignity

  1961 Lanterns and Lances,'The Duchess and the Bugs'.

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• I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Pain, Hate, Good Things

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.265, Pan Macmillan

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• We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts.

  Cal Thomas

  Evil, Political, Politics

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• More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political) party or faction that tolerates gay-baiting rhetoric in the name of 'family values' makes 'family values' look more and more like common bigotry.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Party, Gay, Views

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• I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Liberty, Opinion, Latitude

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

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• In the zero-sum budget game, every dollar spent on this problem [illegal immigration] must be taken from somewhere else....No, we should not tolerate people immigrating illegally. But we need to treat this issue honestly and fairly.

  Leon Panetta

  Zero, Taken, Somewhere Else

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• People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Clever, People, Contradiction

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• The longer a person has been dead the greater is the tradition... If Buddha is alive you can barely tolerate him... You cannot believe this man has known the ultimate because he looks just like you... Hungry he needs food, sleepy he wants a bed, ill, he has to rest - just like you... That is why Jesus is worshiped now and yet he was crucified when he was alive. Alive, you crucify him; dead, you worship him.

  Rajneesh

  Jesus, Believe, Men

  "When the Shoe Fits: Talks on the Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu". Book by Rajneesh, 1976.

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• Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a heliocentric solar system; it should not pay attention to the equally preposterous notions of scientific creationism

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Circles, Religion, Attention

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• So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Patriotic

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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• The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet hear within its wild randomizing abandon the possibilities of innovation and transformations.

  William Thompson

  Real, Lying, Adventure

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• Regarding the mantra..."There is no overtraining" Just because you can handle large amounts of volume doesn't mean it's needed. That's the crux of the issue. Just because the body can tolerate something doesn't mean it's a necessity for progress. This is simply poor logic.

  Steve Shaw

  Workout, Mean, Issues

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• People can tell if you don't like 'em. African Americans can tell we're not welcome in the Republican Party no matter how many times they say we are. All the signals that it's a party that tolerates anti-black racism is very clear.

  Van Jones

  Party, Racism, People

  Source: pen.org

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• The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. To most of us, the manipulative invoking of religion to advance a politician or a party is frightening and divisive. The American people will tolerate religious leaders taking positions for or against candidates.

  Mario Cuomo

  Religious, Philosophy, Party

  "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. January 5, 2015.

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• I felt as if I was the brunt of some massive joke at my expense: Can you believe this loser can be connected to Marlon Brando and Katharine Hepburn? But through the years I have learned to tolerate and sometimes embrace the idea. People have asked me if I consider it an honour. Well, all it indicates is that I've been in a lot of movies with a lot of people. And besides that there are plenty of other actors that would work.

  Kevin Bacon

  Believe, Years, Ideas

  "How my life became a game" by Kevin Bacon, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2005.

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• I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When faith and doctrine are concerned and endangered, neither love nor patience are in order....when these are concerned, neither toleration nor mercy are in order, but only anger, dispute, and destruction - to be sure, only with the Word of God as our weapon.

  Martin Luther

  Love Is, Order, Weapons

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• You tolerate me. You really tolerate me!

  Sean Penn

  Sean Penn's acceptance speech for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead in "Dead Man Walking", 1996.

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