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• Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Determination, Anger

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• The best defense for any group of people is what we do to defend other people.

  Russell Simmons

  People, Groups, Defense

  "Rabbi Marc Schneier and Russell Simmons". "Voices on Antisemitism" with Daniel Greene, www.ushmm.org. October 25, 2007.

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• Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our allegiance. Instead, we are self-made, independent, alone, and fragile, a biological species adapted to live in a biological world. What counts for long-term survival is intelligent self-understanding, based upon a greater independence of thought than that tolerated today even in our most advanced democratic societies.

  E. O. Wilson

  Independent, Intelligent, Self

  "The Meaning of Human Existence" by Keith Hess, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2016.

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• Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.

  Rudolf Carnap

  Examination, Form, Cautious

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• There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

  David Romtvedt

  Grace, Judgment, Arise

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• There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

  Eric Hoffer

  Race, Judging, Groups

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Views, Labels

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• When we clearly understand that there is no superior sex or superior race, we will have opened the door of communication and laid the foundation for building winning relationships with all people in this global world of ours.

  Zig Ziglar

  Sex, Attitude, Communication

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• Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble.

  Dennis Miller

  Xenophobia, Scrabble, Benefits

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.30, Main Street Books

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• I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Believe, Thinking

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• Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
  A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students;
  Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good,
  Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism;
  And to some he teaches the profound,
  The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment,
  Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Compassion, Essence, Practice

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• We have to think and see how we can fundamentally change our education system so that we can train people to develop warm-heartedness early on in order to create a healthier society. I don't mean we need to change the whole system, just improve it. We need to encourage an understanding that inner peace comes from relying on human values like, love, compassion, tolerance and honesty, and that peace in the world relies on individuals finding inner peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Honesty, Mean, Thinking

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• Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments, but by reducing God to some benevolent "man upstairs" whose only attributes are love and tolerance, and who could not care less about sin, they truly have transgressed God's commandment. They have created a god in their mind who does not actually exist and will on the day of judgment, not be able to offer them any help.

  Charlie Campbell

  Men, People, Mind

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• Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.

  Criss Jami

  Negative, Opinion, Judgment

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.29, Criss Jami

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• Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one is able to adjust, while the other, apparently, couldn't... The same analogy applies to fighting, and probably any other sport. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. We've seen this since the beginning of mixed martial arts.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Sports, Art, Strong

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• To tolerate is to insult.

  Bruce Lee

  Insult, Tolerate

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.375, Tuttle Publishing

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• The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, Religion, Liberty

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “On Liberty: Mill's Works”, p.17, VM eBooks

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• How do you know what's really organic? Today, there's all these impurities in the water and the air. The water for the fruits and vegetables has junk in it. If you get enough vitamins and minerals out of normal food and whole grains, and you get enough proteins and exercise (that's the key) then nature builds up a tolerance to all of these things. It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Vegetables, Vitamins And Minerals

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• Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Appreciation, Mood, Affront

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• Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely toleration, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within the interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters

  Audre Lorde

  Creativity, Differences, Creative

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• If we learn to accept our imperfections with humor, as the reflection of our very humanity, we will experience humility and tolerance, we will understand that we are already filled with forgiveness, we will see the gift of our lives, the chains will fall away, and we will be free -- free not so much from fear or 'dependence,' but free for love, for life itself.

  Ernest Kurtz

  Fall, Love Life, Humility

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• To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Real, Dark

  "Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium" by Albert Einstein, www.einsteinandreligion.com. 1941.

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• It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Strong, Thinking, Mma

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• The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”

  Jean Guitton

  Opinion, Accepting, Suspicion

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• We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .

  Wilferd Peterson

  Kindness, Inspiration, Heart

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