"Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance."
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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."
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"The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision."
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"Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness."
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"The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice."
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"We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance."
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"Tolerance is the one essential ingredient ... You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance."
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"Tolerance cannot seduce the young."
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"Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages."
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"The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about."
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"Tolerance is another word for indifference."
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"Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance."
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"Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it."
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"Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man."
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"But Colin's only understanding of love was of limitless loyalty, boundless tolerance."
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"He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself."
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"Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same."
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"Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore."
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"Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english."
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"Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest."
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