“ In the modern world, self-control buys a good life indeed. Having self-control to spare is rare enough nowadays that the marketplace lavishes huge rewards on society's scary new self-control elite, those lords of discipline who not only withstood all that boring stuff in graduate school, but keep themselves thin by carefully regulating what they eat after flogging themselves off to the gym at the crack of dawn. It's as if they got the news ahead of the rest of us-no doubt by waking up earlier-that self-control may well be the most important trait of the twenty-first century. ”
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“ Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
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“ To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. ”
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“ The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. ”
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“ Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. ”
- Woodrow Wilson- Copy
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“ Those wearing Tolerance for a labelCall other views intolerable. ”
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“ I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. - Kahlil Gibran. ”
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“ Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. ”
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“ People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones. ”
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“ The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. ”
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“ Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. ”
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“ I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. ”
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“ Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance. ”
- Giacomo Leopardi- Copy
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“ Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love. ”
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“ Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love. ”
- Tom Hannah- Copy
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“ Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things. ”
- Edward M. Forster- Copy
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“ We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference. ”
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“ Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. ”
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