Tolerate Quotes - Page 11

• This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.

  Louis A. Johnson

  America, Waste, Defense

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• The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

  John Marshall Harlan

  Class, Equality Under The Law, Liberty

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• Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

  John Marshall Harlan

  Powerful, Color, Law

  Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, (559), 1896.

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• A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer tolerates the opposition of activity and passivity, nor that of cause and effect, or of indetermination and determination, etc., such that in designating consciousness as an effect or a determination, one continues - for strategic reasons that can be more or less lucidly deliberated and systematically calculated - to operate according to the lexicon of that which one is de-limiting.

  Jacques Derrida

  Determination, Lexicon, Etc

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• Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.

  Garry Kasparov

  Impact, Russia, Ukraine

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• If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators… saying they will not tolerate this.

  Rand Paul

  Would Be, Body, Senators

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• There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

  Richard Marcinko

  Failure, Risk, Kind

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• If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of our hearts, then who among us shall be free?

  June Jordan

  Heart, Gay, Justice

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• Strong Women never put their safety or their self-esteem aside to please someone else or to keep a man. If someone acts inappropriately or abusively in any way (including becoming emotionally abusive), Strong Women stand up for themselves and make it abundantly clear that they will not tolerate the abuse. If this doesn't work, they walk away.

  Beverly Engel

  Being Yourself, Strong Women, Self Esteem

  Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and tools of probabilities. We have methods for analyzing and ranking opinion according to their likelihood of correctness. That is enough.

  Robert A. Burton

  Children, Humility, Tools

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• We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.

  Publilius Syrus

  Vices, Virtue, Familiar

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• Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Teaching, Helping, Students

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• When we learn to TOLERATE boredom, we find out who we really are.

  Naomi Alderman

  Boredom

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• If you're going to be a successful entrepreneur, you're going to have to be somebody who can tolerate a high rate of change, you have to be willing to put a lot more hours into it, you have to tolerate the fact that you're going to make more mistakes and have a culture that responds to that.

  Trip Hawkins

  Mistake, Successful, Entrepreneur

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• Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them!

  Tom Peters

  Business, Mistake, Training

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• The president is out there today trying to talk about health care, and the reality is nobody cares about what he's saying on health care because this news is consuming everything. No president could tolerate that or should tolerate it.

  Leon Panetta

  Reality, Trying, President

  "CHENEY FINALLY BREAKS SILENCE / Vice president defends decision not to reveal shooting for a day" by Carolyn Lochhead, www.sfgate.com. February 16, 2006.

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• Adamson feels that drug developers are unreasonably concerned about rare events. The reality is children tolerate phase I therapy new agents being tested to find the best dosage and possible side-effects as well as or better than adults, ... Once the initial studies are done that is, phase I trials in adults study should begin in children.

  Peter Adamson

  Children, Reality, Rare Events

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• Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Past, Half

  Tony Robbins (2014). “MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends to become unspiritual and inhuman. It is life without existence, superstition without faith. It may stamp all flat; it is disinclined to tolerate independence and greatness, but prone to constrain people to become as automatic as ants.

  Karl Jaspers

  Greatness, People, Independence

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• The American people will not tolerate a clean increase in the debt limit.

  John Boehner

  People, Debt, Limits

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• AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh's charioteers. AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

  Jerry Falwell

  Jumping, Wrath, Sea

  "Grand Theft Jesus". Book by Robert S. McElvaine, 2008.

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• To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinking deeply. One of the rewards of deep thought is the hot glow of anger at discovering a wrong, but if anger is taboo, thought will starve to death.

  Jules Henry

  Thinking, Deep Thought, Rewards

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• You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate.

  Arthur Rudolph

  Real, Risk, Trying

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• Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it. Something to think about. . .

  Catherine Weaver

  Patience, Thinking, Self

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