"Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas ."
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"Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance, forgiveness, love and compassion."
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"The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance."
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"Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be effectively improved."
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"I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt."
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"This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected."
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"Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point."
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"It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe."
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"How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness."
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"The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions."
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"Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the sense, between himself and her, of a kind of free-masonry of precocious tolerance and irony. They had both, in early youth, taken the measure of the world they happened to live in: they knew just what it was worth to them and for what reasons, and the community of these reasons lent to their intimacy its last exquisite touch."
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"The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance."
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"We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment"
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"We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician."
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"There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'"
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"Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline."
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"Tolerance is understanding. It is open to new light. Those who are tolerant are always eager to explore viewpoints other than their own."
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"The intellect, divine as it is, and all worshipful, has a habit of lodging in the most seedy of carcasses, and often, alas, acts the cannibal among the other faculties so that often, where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe."
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"Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most"
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"No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy."
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